When you were gone there was a sort of silence and peace
but it wasn't a silence of forgetting and finally's

It was a silence of growing in love
with how much I had missed you
and how much I had loved you
and how familiar it was to feel you near

Not physically
but in my head and in my heart
I had kept a place for you there
without even knowing it

It was nice and cosy
and there were flowers everywhere
the smell was overwhelming and the air was thick and moist of

love

I had become so much better at loving you from
afar