I'm withered. I feel depleted in my guts. Robbed of something that was supposed to be a part of me Oxygen deprivation upon waking even though it's with gasps i rise from the pillows. I feel grief unmatched. Nails claw at the skin covering my chest. I've been told they hurt but i cant feel them. I only feel compressed. Short on everything. Answers. Solutions. Hope. Short on everything but love. So i lay back down, falling onto the spaces youd be in a different life. I'll let the whispers of possibilities carry me over into my dreams where you'll be mine. I wake up again. I wither in the absence.