This Is How It Will Be by Barbara Quick

 

You'd already said goodbye,

but I wasn't sure you were already gone.

Emerging from the bathroom, I called your name,

wanting to know if you'd read the news item

about the two women who got lost in the woods,

then were rescued and driven to their car,

then drove their car down a boat ramp in the fog,

at the bottom of a dead-end road—

and drowned.

"Honey?" I called, realizing

I was alone in the house.

Realizing that this is how it'll be,

for one or the other of us, someday:

Something that wants to be shared

will be unheard.