after they have gone

Abandoned Teddy (Photo credit: Mamboman1)

after they have gone, we pick up toys
left strewn and abandoned on the floor
and then I slowly go upstairs alone
heading for my room and sighing as I close the door

now there is no one to squeal with joy
upon grabbing the TV remote
and no one that cries when she falls
over whom I can then lovingly dote

I start to feel suffocated
by an airless void of absolute silence
so, I sit down and turn on my TV
almost in an act of defiance

but I know something is missing
that was there just moments before
leaving only the empty nothingness
and me and nothing more