Ode to an Absent Love

There is an empty space in my heart

Waiting for one who is not here

The gap where he is not

Pains my soul

 

I sit and await and hope for some time

For even the shortest of moments

My heart will be whole

If he comes

 

I remember every second we snatched

From daily drudgery and routine

The memory warms me

Fights the cold

 

Will it ever be, will that time come?

Those questions I try not to ask

But ever they haunt me

I have to know

 

For I found someone who changed me

Who made me more than I was

Before I was incomplete

Now I am me

 

I endure the tests and take on the trial

I swallow the bitterness gladly

He will be worth the pain

If I can survive

 

I didn’t know that I was lost and empty

But I found another part of me

Found a wonderful thing

I found the one

 

I exist without him but I know no joy

For he gave himself to another

So I simply wait and ache

And miss him

 

I am devoted to one as distant as the sun

I gave my heart away to him

I crossed that bridge

And I fell

 

And so I need him and I cannot forget

For that great empty space

Hurts me every second

I love him

 

Reviews

[Kenneth The Poet]

This is an excellent write. An ode of powerful pain.