I Mmissyou

You are the name in every breath I take,

The silent tune my aching heart has to make,

A prayer that etches light on the soul's own sky,

A sweet scent that lingers in the tainted air,

Oh, how I long for the tender touch of your hand,

The sweetness of your lips, a promise that fate stole,

I sift the sun’s warmed air for echoes of your soul,

A fleeting warmth, a shadow of the past, a soft reprieve,

The living reminiscence for which my heart still believes,

For even the long absence still holds a faintest trace,

A shimmering silhouette of your remembered grace,

Every day I chase your shadow on the silent, sunless wall,

And wait, though no expected footstep will come to me,

The empty space of a cast where you were meant to be-

Only now shapes the hollow solace left to me,

To hold a love nearly lost, love I can’t grieve,

Yet in this breath, I name you, to just be free,

You are my angel, the prayer in the air,

Now, it’s only me, breathing where we used to be.