Gone

Where does my love go at times like these

I wake to a desert

Where there was an ocean before

Kneeling in the sand

My mouth full of sawdust

The sky is the colour of dirty rust

And it feels so hollow inside my heart

As phantoms take the place of angels

How can it be that light disappears

So very easily

With just a few words

The truth is that fear

Has stolen in again on slippered feet

And suddenly and sadly

There is no longer any relief

Only the frightening belief

That every promise and every hope

Will be stolen

Leaving only doubt and emptiness

Shadows once again appearing

In the space once filled

With hope and love and happiness