What Will Happen Quotes

“You will go to the grave
and it will be an ordinary hole, it will terrify you.”
― Leila Chatti

“You will say Show me
the body, and they will not show you the body.
You will wear the only black clothes you own
and they will collect what you forgot
drifts daily around you: motes of pale
dust, the day’s heat, a strand of her hair.
You will not touch the mug left on the side table,
ruby seal of her lips’ whorls and creases, the wet ring
beneath it a zero, a gaping mouth. You will go to the grave
and it will be an ordinary hole, it will terrify you.
You will not sleep, or you will sleep
beyond waking so it resembles a minor death. You will forget
it is Tuesday, Wednesday, and one day walking
from one room to another, you will realize
a week has passed since last her breath
shook loose. This will destroy you
in that it has not destroyed you.”
― Leila Chatti