i miss you so -

 i miss you so
much the tide in my heart 

hasn't stopped dropping.

i know you are not out at sea,

yet i spend my time writing

love notes in glass bottles

and chucking them as far as i can.

i find them on the shore,

later, when i am aching,

as the water leaves them behind.

i look for

you in everything. as if

you'll be there when i turn the corner.

you aren't gone. forever, that is. you 

will come back, but i keep opening

my mouth to say something to

you then close it softly.

lovesick fills your absence within

me. it is a tender, sensitive thing

to juggle with.

if i'm not careful, it sneaks out

of the corner of my eyes and

wets my cheeks.

i miss you so

my love. 

it is written all over the way i grieve

every ordinary goodbye.

/x