The darkness

When I think about the darkness

How it seeped its vapours underneath your skin

Wrapping its suffocating tentacles around your heart

And squeezing so tight

Extinguished all of the light

I feel as though all the air is leaving me

And as I watch your face so grey

Devoid of all the light and colour

It once contained

The truth is hard to bear

I wish there was some way

To help you out of here

This terribly dark

And deadening place

Where there seems to be no trace left

Of who you once were

And even though I cannot say these words

Face to face

My heart will never stop

Loving you

Aching for you

Wishing there was a way to be

Free as we were

Before so much was lost

But this I have learned

There is nothing much I can do

But just be here for you

And try in some small way

To bear testament to the light