Where You No Longer Are

 

There is your absence, vast and silent,

Like a moonless sky, an endless winter.

It stretches through my restless veins,

A long shiver that leads to nothing.

I still hear the echo of your voice,

A lost whisper between two silences,

Like a prayer drowned by the wind,

Like a last word left in exile.

The world still turns, but without light,

The days wither, pale and unbroken.

I still walk where you no longer are,

Chasing your shadow at the edge of a dream.

And maybe love is nothing more than this:

Carrying a ghost within one’s soul.