Spring Break

When I found out

I would have you

In the middle 

Of the school 

year,

I dreaded those weeks

I knew we’d be 

Apart.

I’d be grading papers

And teaching 

Other people’s

Children,

While you’d be at home

With grandma Lisa

Or Tiersa.

I told myself

It would all

Be okay

Because spring break

Would come,

And 

We’d have 

A week

Alone

Together.

Now spring break

Is here,

But you

Are

Not.