The air we breathe

Cannot be seen

Until it’s winter air.

With cold that bites

You like a knife

You exhale and it’s there.

It drifts away

And then it fades

Without ever a trace.

But once it was

What filled your lungs

From which you spoke today....

Do you ever wonder

What would be the plunder

To be the sun that burns in the sky?

While bright and majestic

With a pull so magnetic

Yet no one ever stops by.

For in distance you give life

In closeness you take it

With your fire that burns so ever-bright.

Do you think it would be lonely

To be the only

Star that lights our days and nights?

To be admired from afar

But the most admiration by far...

The morning comes, the light that used to warm our faces

Now only a reminder of times long past

With it, comes another day in your abscence

Finding a way to push through seems as daunting a task as ever

Will I be whole again?

A foolish question, for without you my soul only yearns for the warm of your embrace once more

And that is all she knows.

The abyss that I’ve come to call my home greets me...