Lingering
The echos of your laughter linger
in the empty hallways of my mind,
It's been so long since you lost the ability to speak to me.
I can now only dwell on my memories
of how I made you laugh.
And though I grow weary of trying to read your mind.
I still raise up each morning,
Listening and waiting.
It's been a decade now ,at least,
and still I dream of our last fight,
Never physical was how we played it,
but, the cerebal pain endures.
A decade passed of silence,
like the empty hallways of my mind
and the echos of your laughter,
so fresh within my mind.
I remember what they told me,I remember what they said..
If you survied the strokes- swelling in your head.
You could someday say my name.
Just to hear "I love you" -
I still stay in this cruel silent game.
But each night I escape to those empty hallways of my mind..
To linger in the laughter that echos from the walls.
And there I find some comfort-
there in those empty halls.
RJM 2011
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