Poem of loss

My heart sings for you. To come and stay. Never to stray.

Why do those who are pure, leave us too soon?

Why does the pain always stay?

The song of your life echoes around me.

Bringing back memories of loss and love.

Will wishing bring you back?

How can you be gone when my heart feels you so close to me?

I turn to see a shadow of what was. Now only a living memory inside me.

Can this truly be life?

Love and loss?

Tell me, is there a way to bring you closer?

To bring you back from a place I cannot follow?

How can your love remain when you are far away?

Step by step I feel you next to me.

Not even a shadow remains.

But your memories will forever fill my days.

– S.L. Vaden