For now, I know you've quietly gone Leaving my emotions in sad silence In lonely consent and a grayer dawn My loneliness asks of me compliance I spend each breath walking an empty shore Tracing faded steps we made by the sea Left to the din of life I hear no more The dark has come and its pain I must flee The clouded horizon seems closer now And tides are rising to wash away time With their churning ripples that slow somehow To pull back when my pain begins its climb The lost glow from our last evening's sun Leaves me alone as the night has begun 12/22/17