Relative

stand in judgment
and see if I care
about restlessness nights
when you aren’t there
as the future weighs
heavy with unknown strain
that prods present pressures
and inflates our current of pain.

raw. real. relentless.
unbounded and unforgiving.

you do not know.
you do not want to know.
not really.
for you understand
you are unable to know.
that is what we know now
at the age you were before this began for us.

it is all relative, relative.
isn’t it?

yet it is our reality.
.
.