Her scent drifts down wind
sending shivers down my spine
with the slightest whiff

forgetting to eat
with these thoughts of you
rushing through collapsed veins,
swelling this useless brain
draining the marrow
from bones made hollow--
broken too many times.

Childhood gone
youth remains

Why return expecting things to be different?
Everything and everyone is the same...
Maybe even worse than before.

the weight of this World is too much--
take me to the Moon where I'll float
weightless in the never ending
darkness of the encompassing Galaxy
no longer restrained by the tethers
that kept me suspended in time.

that heart-wrenching sound of Her laugh?
It takes you to a place in time when love
was just a four letter word...