Loveless

When the one you love

Is nowhere near,

How do you bear

Those empty hours?

Do you stare at the picture,

At your lover’s smile,

Desperately hoping all the while

You are being missed too?

And do you fill that hidden silence

With song

And sing along

Crying out those words at your absent love?

So then my dear, can you share these feelings

To fill the loveless heart of this artless man

And maybe help me understand

Love’s absence’s true meaning?