In your absence Days have become longer Life has lost its lustre Colorful has become colourless A passively growing longing Is breeding a profound sense Of melancholy and nostalgia In my head Yet I have no inkling When would I inhale your scent Peer into your ochre eyes And this ceaselessly stretching void Filled with a deep yearning for you to come back Will shrink and shrivel like a dried autumn leaf Which will shriek and die under your feet As you'll trudge upon it And will hold my weary heart Before it breaks and shatters Under the leaden weight Of this ennui in your absence