You'll occupy my bed, for a day or two, regardless of whether or not I am in it. // Then you'll leave. For a few days, a week, a few weeks. // While you're gone the coffee will still be made, the showers will still be taken, and bed time stories will still be read. // However, my body will shiver without your heat, and I'll go to bed earlier, without your heat. // I may not play my guitar, and I may not memorize my lines while you're present. But God ******, you're present. // // The sun shines and it will continue to shine and the clocks tick and they will continue to tick and my love yearns and it will someday cease yearning. Cease burning. Cease. / Just as your presence has ceased.