Why doesn't like always = love?
And why did I wake up this morning flooded with your absent light?
eyes burned and body swelled but you are
gone

My memory holds you still
close and rich
i can even see your lips moving
feel your voice around me
hear the rhythm of your poetic license

why did you leave me alone?
you turned my volume down and then off
and now without you
i am without power

bones have been crushed beneath the weight of this loneliness before
but still i stand

hearing the quiet constancy of birds sweeping through morning dew
and seeing the change of season lift the ground
but no where around me are you

i awaken with blurred eyes and a void in my mind
dreams dissipate but i remember

i remember you being so different that i could touch you and you would stay put
i remember never fearing your back until you turned
and then i remember what the fear felt like
grey and damp and soaking wet

i thought i was the one

i know i am one
and i shall rise from my repose to one day become someone's dream reborn

Copyright © 2006 by Arin Lawrence