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Every moment we are apart
is like a vast ocean
of agony.
The most melancholy melodies
cannot compare to the silence
in which you have left me.
I think of the love we shared,
those incomparable nights
and wondrous days,
our arms around each other,
our lips merging with each other
our eyes ever open, unwilling to be without
the vision of each other,
even for a moment.
Now my eyes are scrunched shut
as I cry incessantly.
The thought of you
is the most potent lacrimating agent in existence.
Twin saline rivulets run
like rivers of despair,
they cut channels down my cheeks.
Those who look upon me laugh
at my hollow sorrow, my pathetic sobs.
I care not what onlookers think
they can mock and deride me
all they want.
I want only
You.