Love Poem: Without You Here

Without You Here

So here again I find myself, consumed within my thoughts.

My head and heart are taking turns, holding your lovely face.

I have you pressed, close to my chest, but not the way I sought.

I'm squeezing tight with empty arms, you're absent from my space.


I'm all alone and still adrift, without you here with me.

My daily life now such a chore, so lately I subsist.

But really Love I'm drowning lost, within this angry sea.

I'm not alive without you here, I simply just exist.


I covet all those lucky ones, who see you day to day.

With no idea how rich they are, they prove their senses dull.

I fear the miles which separate, may hold my love at bay.

Hunting my feelings one by one, my love it hopes to cull.


So once again I find myself, wrapped within my thoughts.

My heart and mind are sharing time, keeping your image near.

I'm holding you within my arms, just not the way I sought.

Enveloped within my lone embrace, so empty without you here.







Started 20 APR 2013 while flying from Fort Hood to Afghanistan - Finished 4 OCT 2014 -Grafenwoehr, Germany