Six months you’ve been absent

pain does not go away

you learn better how to hide it

as you go through day by day

silent weeping in the dark

the hours before bed

for in my dreams you are still here

but by morning you have fled

the loneliness it lingers on

though surrounded by people be

your face I look for in the crowd

wishing you’d returned to me

until we are together again

in my heart you’ll be

Keeping you close in memories

Your spirit living on safe inside of me.

SM Carey Murphy