The Little Sadness

I feel a little sad
and it doesn’t go away
I feel it in the gaps
on the edge of every day
a funny little emptiness
a whispering of pain
an almost close to tearfulness
a single drop of rain

It’s just
you
the absence
of you

It’s really not a problem
no need to make a fuss
It’s just that now there’s me
where there used to be us

a note on the photo
Detail from the Tui painting by Lynn Ramage