I don’t know what I truly miss,
the person or the memory
It felt so much like forever
but lasted so little of our lifetimes,
those moments of knowing and sharing,
of mutual understanding and connection
You can’t look back and tell me
that none of that was real
It can’t be disregarded,
abandoned or forgotten
Even so far removed
it creeps up on me time to time
The absence of that closeness,
the void left in the leaving,
the wasted time and effort
all for nothing but the pain
But worst of all, the thought that haunts
of what might have come to pass
had we stayed close and found
where that path we walked would take us
without the broken ending
that led to our separate ways