I awoke today from a terror,
A nightmare of losing you.
A dream like watching life in a mirror.
The pain of your absence piercing anew.

I clutched at you as you disappeared,
Your body in my arms became just bone.
My face stained with tears,
I awake as always, alone.

My pillow no longer under my head,
Captured in the vice of my arms.
Laying in our now cold bed,
Nightmares causing me unbearable mental harm.

Destroying my mind,
Consuming my life,
More painful I find,
Than any knife.