Room
A ring sits on the shelf
On your side of the walk-in closet
All your clothes now gone
We fought when we purchased the house
I thought the closet was too small
To hold all the things I loved
You thought it was adequate
Happy with what you had
I kept buying more treasures
To fill up my empty heart
It would never be enough
To fill in the cracks between us
Now the closet is too large
It may take my entire lifetime
To replace the empty space
You left in my life
About Yong Takahashi
Yong Takahashi won the Chattahoochee Valley Writers National Short Story Contest and the Writer's Digest's Write It Your Way Contest. She was a finalist in The Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, Southern Fried Karma Novel Contest, Gemini Magazine Short Story Contest, and Georgia Writers Association Flash Fiction Contest. Some of her works appear in Cactus Heart, Crab Fat Magazine, Flash Fiction Magazine, Gemini Magazine, Meat For Tea, and Twisted Vines.