…softly fading

In this slow drifting unquiet night
your absence still fills the emptiness with such sorrow
an endless ache, loss has lodged an arrow deep within my heart
I still ache for you to call my name again
to whisper in my ear those forgotten words
every beginning is an ending
and every ending an incongruous binding
a connection that can never be undone
after lifetimes, after all that we have shared
the eternal longing still lingers
we both know all the secrets that we keep
and the distance between us is but a bridge we have to cross
but here, in the embrace of darkness
I remember a dream once lost
I hide it deep within, and when it has sobbed out it’s last utterance
it brings back the warmth of your embrace
an endless ache, oh how I have wished for that
my soul is aflame and silence soars like a symphony
my thoughts dancing like pain
now here I am alone again, all my dreams softly fading
and nothing remains the same
© Ann Bagnall