One day

the person you love

will say to you, 

“I feel empty.” 

And they won’t know why. 


You’ll desperately plead with 

the people you have looked to

for answers to the most difficult questions in the past,

and when the answer doesn’t come

you will ask yourself

again and again,

and you won’t know why.

Nobody will know why.

Tonight I am without you
Because I hurt you
Because I was wrong
There’s an empty space beside me
Where you should be
Where you belong
And with each minute
The space feels bigger
And emptier too
Maybe if the lack stretched far enough
If the space grew wide enough
Maybe it could reach you