Now You’re Gone

A poem

Laying in the darkness 4 am Staring at my alarm clock Sleep evades me, silence pervades me Now you’re gone

Thirty years we had been together Boy and man I have loved you dear From the first, I stared into your green eyes My heart and soul were yours to keep

You were my North Star My pillar of support You were my lover, my friend, my saviour My angel

Now I don’t know how to be me I don’t know how to feel, or touch or think or laugh You guided me from who I was to who I wanted to be

I don’t know how it happened I don’t know why Could I have done something differently? I lie here thinking and twisting and turning and crying and moaning Because now you’re gone

Life will never be the same And I don’t think it should I wouldn’t change a minute of our time together Even if I could

Laying in the darkness 5 am…