Tears of Regret

For today's poem, I followed the prompt posted on the NaPoWriMo site to write about grief using Geoffrey Brock's poem, “Goodbye,” as inspiration. Here is my poem.

Tears of Regret
By Candace Shultz

You were sick,
And I didn't know.
Death knocked on your door,
And you followed him home.

Were you alone? I don't know.
I wasn't there to say goodbye.
Were you alone? I hope love
Surrounded you in the end.

You were a whisper in the wind
That I tried so hard to hear, but now
A heavy silence weighs on my heart,
And I drown in a pool of tears.