When a Life is Lost

The Earth should stop spinning

When a life is lost

The world should stop

Dead in its tracks

It should take a moment

To consider

The pain

The wind would be still

The waves wouldn't crash

The rain wouldn't fall

The sun wouldn't shine

Time wouldn't pass

This it deserves

Only stillness

Only reverence

Only space

Only grief

Nothing would move

The world would be still

For you

For them

When a life is lost

Everything spins