I Waited

I waited for days to breathe again

When your sun left my world forever

Taking with it your smile and your voice

All the things I ever loved about you.

I waited for months to sleep again

When your moon left my world forever

Taking with it your smells and your touch

All the things I ever loved about you.

I waited for years to live again

When your presence left my world forever

Taking with it my memory of your face

The only thing I ever loved about you.

I waited for days, for months, for years to pass

Before I realized that love of smiles, of voices

That love of smells, of touches, and love of a face

Is not love at all, but a shadow that pretends.

You saw this shadow before I did

And you walked away from my smile and voice,

My smells and my touches, my face…

The only things you ever loved about me.

I was weak to hold on and weaker still to cry

Weak to remember so vividly the day we met.

Weak to wander lost in my own life.

Weaker still to hope I never find my way home again.