The Void

This restless bed again tonight,
peace at hand just not in sight.

A reach to touch, again in vein,
your absence known, is now my pain.

Darkness lifts with morning light,
reveals not you, but my lonely plight.

The broken dreams, this shattered life,
I miss you so, my precious wife!
Copyright © | Year Posted 2017

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De Beaulieu Avatar
June 2, 2018 at 1:21 PM
Hello Mark, yesI know how it feels to miss a spouse, I know this loneliness. I feel it to. Have a nice day my friend.
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