Grief without the ache

This feels a little strange

This grief without the pain

But I swear sometimes I see you out there

Walking in the rain

🐞

It’s not your presence that I miss

It’s the way your voice would say

“I love you sunshine, call me back.”

in that no nonsense kinda way

🐞

How you’d hold me in your arms

And make everything feel alright

Or how you’d somehow understand

When I had no more strength to fight

🐞

I know you haven’t gone anywhere

You never truly left

But my human heart can’t help but feel

A little bit bereft

🐞

I hear your laughter in my ears

And see your smile in my eyes

I sometimes feel the echoes that you left

When exhaustion makes me cry

🐞

Time may not be real

And you may not be gone

But sometimes I wish you were more

Than a random song that comes on

🐞

Or the image of a memory

That has slowly begun to fade

Or a dream of something that might have been

If you could have

Would have

Stayed