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i find myself tracing the outline of your body
from when you laid in my bed
closing my eyes
feeling your warm embrace
as if you never left
i take a deep breath, hoping to tame my emotions
but instead i inhale the faint scent of your cologne
there are empty spaces in all the places you once were
there's an empty feeling in my chest since the last time i heard you say those three words
i still see you, you're a ghost
but this isn't paranormal
and with every ounce of longing in me
i can't believe my heart is still beating
in the most simplistic way i can express,
i miss you.
Anger?
Perhaps it's something more?
Upsetting disappointment?
I'm dragging my son down a path I've followed aimlessly as a child.
He is following within my footsteps. My path.
You wouldn't understand the unbearable stress of being a single parent, with co-parenting with a idiot.
Constantly worrying about the child's needs of seeing this father.
Even when his father isn't enthusiastic about seeing his own son.
Continuously wondering if all this effort of pushing our child towards you is even worth it?
Because, in the end, he is the one who will get hurt.
You've been down this road yourself, we both have daddy-issues.
We both know how this will play out.
Either he resents you as he gets older or he will just end up never seeing you.
We both know how this ends, sadly.
Nights like these I can't help but wonder
Would things have been different had I not left
Would I not be so keen to let these thoughts wander
If I had always been around and my heart you had kept

But nights like these I'm forced to remember
The sadness, the pain, you brought everyday
Not just nights you were with her
But the mornings you were never with me

Nights like these I keep a tally
Of all the times you said you loved me
Why doesn't it fill up both hands?
Why doesn't it stretch for miles on end?
Nights like these I can't help but wonder
On the weekends you liked to leave me.
Go up in the mountains and get high as a kite.
You liked to see things.
I would stay home and I would be dreaming of a night when we wouldn't get in a fight.
I was okay but not completely,
with the idea that you were losing your mind.
I would mourn for you,
for the guy I knew,
for the sober mind that would be in my bed.
I stayed with you,
and darling, I prayed that you,
would just stop ******* with my head.
I've been looking for you all around

I can't find you in old photographs
And sometimes I can't reach you by phone
    But when I look in the mirror and see my smile

*I know I've found you
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