These Long Nights

What happens when the one you love isn't there?

The night is long and chill
without you by my side.
Hours of sleeplessness call me by
name in faint whispers.
I can feel your phantom form
wrap around my resting frame,
but I wake to empty air.
How long the night has been
without you next to me.

Author's Note

Written for the one I love who was away for the weekend, and I had to sleep alone.