How Do You Say Goodbye?

How does one explain the loss of a soulmate of sixty years? There are no words that can describe the feeling of the emptiness in the pit of your stomach of this loss every day. You wake up and go through the process of the day, but you are just going through the motions of getting through the day. There is no laughter, only tears. Family and friends try to help, but everyone has their own lives, and they move on, as it should be. It is the loneliness of not being able to share anything. Some event or thought that happened, something funny, from the rescue cat Hannah you loved.

I talk to you. I speak to you in the morning when I wake up. I talk to you during the day about any events that may have happened, and then I talk to you at night, saying how much I love and miss you. They say that if you speak to the departed, they should/will hear you. If that is true, you should be very busy listening to me. I know you must be pleased where you are, and there is no doubt that your good soul is with God. I am happy for you that you are not in any more pain, and meeting your mom and dad and sister and all our family departed. I am glad you are happy, but I am at a loss every day, not wanting to say goodbye.