The Unobtained

Surrounded by loved ones
and ones once loved
They chatter and mingle
making full an empty place
a place I once called home

Where else would they go?
they need to say goodbye
I float past, a fragment
carried by blank words,
humbled by teary eyes

It's all so familiar
but they shouldn't be here,
ragged carpet squeezed between toes,
sense of comfort too nostalgic
A dream, and all dreams end

Down trodden halls
there's a room no longer mine
hidden from the guests,
from the pain
A last refuge of peace

Patiently she lies, she waits
present, assured, alive
Every beauty the world could offer
Every heartbeat yet to be skipped
The Unobtained

Silhouettes of prophecy come between
glimpses of lives desperate to be
but we both know it's too late
too late to be any more or any less
As I am, in her embrace

I lay gently with comfort
Wrapped together in calm
"I want to make it up to you
give you all that you deserve"
This moment is truly enough

I Awake