SJ

She heard his voice in dreams of silence,

Saw his face upon the wall;
Reached out and grasped the world beyond
To rise above it all.

She tried to think the whole thing through,

She tried to change her mind.
No one else can know the pain
Destroying her deep inside.

She thought of him by night and day,

The moments she had willed.
The way he’d look, the words he’d say,
The hopeless void he filled.

When she wakes up feeling lonely,

When she feels her life has gone,
It’s as though the fire was only
Supposed to last this long.

But candles flicker out some day,

The flame will not recur;
For every time he turned away
He turned away from her.