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*Reaching out,
searching for a touch
in the darkness,
when alarm clocks call
beyond fitted sheets
and flattened pillow nightmares

Measured steps
through open doors,
feed empty hallways
in night light silhouettes
as destined worries
wait in the corners in plain sight

Hoping again
for a sunny day
on a dreary gray morning
finding the coffee hot
though with a bitter taste of despair
sipping between tear drop ripples

This heart
beats so lonely, slowly
my thoughts echo through barren rooms,
returning to my mind
as eyes stare out of
frost glazed windows

at a world
moving about in altered fashion
blind to the pain that washes
down the existence I carve
in silent shadows
longing for only her