Someone is dead and gone

I haven’t stopped crying

Nobody warned me of the feelings

That accompany somebody dying

I step inside and look around

I don’t know this place

Though it’s my childhood home

It’s not the same anymore, that’s not the case

I feel alone

Which is different than lonely

I can barely breathe

My chest is heavy, I wish somebody told me

I feel like I’m endlessly screaming

Into an empty dome

The key they’d given me still fit the lock

But the house no longer felt like home