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.