Shadow Love

Always beside me, I still hear your voice.

I feel the hands that have never touched.

Ghost of lips, I'll never taste.

I shudder, can you feel it?

Your whispered words, I can still hear them.

Your tears mixed with mine

as we dance to music that never played.

Your heart beats and I feel it.

It echoes in my chest.

Beating a rhythm only I can feel.

I knew it would come.

The day I turned to touch you,

to find the shadow fading away.

Your eyes meet mine, I reach to touch you.

For a fleeting moment I think you will stay.

But as quickly as you came to me, you are gone.

You never belonged to me.

I still have you in my heart.

For every breath I take is laced with our pain.