Missing

Another chance gone

Another opportunity laid to waste

No more will I touch the beauty of your soul

Laid bare to me

Underneath the cover of silence

Fear and doubt chased away

The one who came close

And wished to stay

And its only lately

That sadly

My heart remembers

The gift of you

And yet

Isn’t this just the way

Of my life

Many come

But few it seems

Can stay the distance

No solace to be found

Within the emptiness

Of this stony ground

Only a restless mind

That turns this way and that

Driven by mental machinations

Which are only the harsh paving

That lays precariously placed

Over the inner tidal landscape

Of love

And love cannot stop its longing

Or its wanting

When its destination is a flow

But when the river stops

Where else is there to go

Now that you have gone

Missing?