Kindle

When you were gone

Emptiness filled my days and nights

Where you lived

Only a vacant space

Filled with memories of sunshine you brought

To warm this coldest of nights

You were passion and fire

To the places where ice water froze

From too many years of being dammed

But my love it had to be this way

None one can live from the heat of another’s sun

We must find our own deep inside

Even if hidden under layers of hurt and pain

Fear and shame

We are not here

To bask solely in another’s light

And perhaps they came

As reminders

Of all that we lost the way to

And maybe the pain of that vacancy

Was necessary

For us to learn how

To kindle our own spark

And light our own flame

From within