Void

I see you in my dreams, laughing, eyes merrily dancing you fill my heart with love, my soul with kissed promises But when I awake from this rainbowed dream where all the edges are bound with colored ribbons of hope I find you standing at the end of my bed, eyes sunken and hollowed a black crow, perched upon the limb of your own destruction Your addictions gnawing away at your being are all that appear no light exudes from your presence, darkness has enveloped you has stolen your future and our dreams, like a thief that slipped by, so quietly unseen all that is left are the bright images of the past, where we are captured in moments of suspended happiness They frequent every corner of my mind and visit me in my subconscious If only I could but remain in that deepest void you would be as you were, our future would be as it always should have been I close my eyes and block out your image that has tainted my present reality choosing to dwell upon the scattered pictures and remain blissfully peaceful in my own ignorance For the person that you were is forever lost to me, gone, swallowed whole of us there is but an empty vacuum, a succession of days, until the end