When You're Gone

I am my own inevitable loneliness, standing right beside myself.

When you're gone,
it just won't be the same

Maybe not even worth it at all

When you're gone,
oh, how I dread when you're gone

Because I will be truly alone,
not just the figurative lonely lie I propose

I shake at the thought
And shudder and weep

When you're gone
the sun will not set quite the same
the moon will not shine as bright
the birds, trees and people will shun my existence
Unlike you

When you're gone
I will sleep no more
and my life will be a everlasting nightmare of what once was
memories turned coarse and mournful

Oh, how I miss you already
Oh, how my acid tears, my emotions
my searing rage cannot possibly express

My life is leaving
going far away
never to truly return to me

But don't worry, because I'm still left with this empty shell
which is good for nothing at all

Good for sleepless nights
and addiction to escape

Good truly and only for ending

The million ways I could say I love you
do not possibly encompass it enough

The trillion ways I could say I need you
just wouldn't be quite enough

Won't this nightmare end soon?

I have taken you for granted all this time
not properly savored the moments of your sweet presence
of your sweet skin
and bones
eyes and neck

I love you more than words can purely describe
through much more than anyone has experienced
much more than has ever been uttered before

and I shatter without you

i shatter and fall.