Empty
in the shadow of your absence
You—The Missing Piece
Still

Always

It’s only always ever you

now I’m left alone to wonder:
Why? Again?

If you could tell me
I would try to understand
Empathy Would win
Because I really DO love YOU
Then & now
Still & always

Every fragment
That is more than before
Is a treasure
I adore
Ah for more gold dust of you
to glimmer the floor
of my heart

This too shall pass,
I know
I just wish it would pass like a train going by
Instead of a a kidney stone

I lie in the dark,
chasing sleep that slips away.
Thoughts scatter like headlights on wet pavement,
and behind my closed eyes,
tears drift down slow
a rain I never asked for.

Then the dream takes me.
Memories distort
colors bleeding into one another.
For a moment, I almost believe.
I smile in that fragile light,
as if the past had stitched itself whole again.

Daylight arrives, pale and quiet.
I wake uncertain,
as if something slipped away
in the space between sleeping and breathing.

It rains in quiet colors
blue against the blinds,
silver on the floorboards
a weather only I can feel.

staring at the ceiling
lying in the dark
on the floor
i’m fine
letting the words
melt into my soul
like ivy
crawling up the walls
the melody
guiding me to safety
salvation
my savior
getting me
through it all
would’ve been you
crushing
leaving me weak
why are we like this
in your arms
nothing left to say
come closer