LOVE Poem: Cold Side of the Bed, by Kristen Kessler

Poem by Val Cole

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POEM:

Cold Side of the Bed

Loneliness is the cold side of the bed –
the indent where you used to lay,
the smell of your perfume
preserved,

as though you’d come back any second
with a “see you later,”
not the goodbye you never said.

All the words left on read,
and all I have now
is the cold side of the bed.