Shades of you
Blinking the spectre fades
Leaving the faintest trace...
Enough to keep me aware
How far you are from me

Yet the shade remains
The split second shift
Through unconscious thought
Into the here and now
Where I feel your stare

How I long for your touch
If but for only a moment
Yet never will those arms
Encircle me and hold me...
Emptiness cannot give comfort

And now you're empty,
Hollow, unreal...
From flesh
To earth
To dust
To void
To nothing...

But a shadow in my mind

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Lian Kleinhans
1984-2006