Miss you

When you are gone from me

My heart misses yours

And it longs for the time we will connect

Once again

Breathing life and longing and feeling

Between us

But sometimes when you go

Reminders come of what it was

To have empty space open up

As I feel again what it was to fall

With no support at all beneath

And then I think it will be best

Just to stop hoping

Stop longing

Stop reaching

And then I shut the door on love

So as not to suffer hurt

But only close my heart again

And life is never always about this

Connection vies with separation

And for some of us

There is no object constancy

No solid belief

That when the lover has gone

Love has not disappeared

Totally

And so the missing of another

Feels like death

As it stops all breath

And we fall into an unfathomable abyss

Of emptiness