You are just an echo That I hear All around me— In my empty house, In the sting of the cold winter wind, And in all the spaces you once filled.

Life’s too much to bear, And I know it’s been the same for you. We were fractured, like ancient stone— Never meant to be unified. But I still think of you.

Reflections and the things I do Day to day Confound it— The motions are hollow, And I wonder if you’d see through them.

I walk around.

It’s been years, and I still don’t know what I have to do. Did you get what you wanted to? Does he give you more than I could do? I believe we both know what’s true.

I’m just hanging ‘round, Losing time. The sands descend again.

And I feel every grain, Engraved in my mind Are your ways, Your soft, pale, sullen skin—

The way your hand felt, clasped in mine, The warmth, And the feeling That someone else loved me.

I walk around.

I’ve been restless with this, but I know it’s true. You knew me More than I knew you. You knew me— You didn’t need to prove. There’s nothing anyone could do To change the way it played through.