Missing them in bursts of utter silence,

It’s all I can do to move,

And yet it’s all I can do to sit still.

I have no direction,

No sense of time,

Only a heart that gets heavy

After each thought, each rhyme.

I can’t get away,

Cannot escape.

Everything that I see

Invokes memories of things past.

No matter what I do I cannot escape my lack.

These memories that bring me joy

Bring tears of pain;

They play with me like a toy

And eat at my brain.

It’s all I can do to move

And all I can do to sit still

When, in bursts of utter silence,

@)->--

I’m missing you.