Memory Of You

The memory of your

Presence is felt like an earthquake 

As if my soul has everted,

My heart has been torn...

Every wave of emotion 

Is felt like the first time.

I become a spineless, 

Speechless,

Creature

Curling into myself 

And crying out the storm 

That has lived within me

Your presence is missed like 

Cold rain in summer,

Like a scarlet fire drawn in the 

Center of winter,

And when autumn 

Leaves fall like teardrops 

From trees,

Darling, you are missed 

Like a heartbeat falling from a 

Heart 

And I shatter myself every day

From the earthquakes your memory gave

And 

You,

You... Are missed

Relentlessly,

Most ardently...

You are the life within me now

And I cannot seep you out from 

Myself without 

Uprooting everything beautiful

You grew in me.