Last Night's News

[vagabond]

Last night I watched the news but found it hard to stay awake.
I used to get depressed...no...I suppose you were right,                 
I got angry then, or so you said. I thought that...
I can't remember what I thought but these days I just fall asleep.
I wish I still got angry, but without you to notice I don't see the point.
I don't see the point. Yes. I guess it has come to that.
It feels kind of liberating to say it. I don't see the point.
All those years we planned our lives, plan A and B.
You go first or I go first. Plan C we thought about but
the chances of simultaneous death...God, how long we took
to say the D-word...well, it just wouldn't happen.
And it didn't. Wouldn't have mattered anyway.
So last night I turned off the tv and the heating.  
I opened the window and watched the moon dodging the night.
I'm pretty determined, you know, to write this. It is time.                              love the double meaning
The news will say it was a cold night, no frost but a blustery old gale
whistling in from Siberia.Siberia always got the blame. Hypothermia.                   as stated before, I also am not sure if the word "hypothermia" is needed. It´s like an explanation to what the subject´s aiming at when it´s already becoming obvious
I still enjoyed my scotch before bed. Habit. I even asked you if,
if...silly really. I know it. It's just that last night
I thought I heard you say,
" Yes, I'll have a small Cointreau"...         excellent ending, made me read the poem again.  invitation from the hereafter to have a drink on a cold night.
tectak2014
still here

 i felt like inside the widower´s mind reading your poem.