The ache you leave behind

To show you how deeply I love I’d let you taste the ache your absence leaves behind If I could show how much I cared, Feel it in the place I rest my head Not petals pressed in books or songs But where it hurts when you are missed the most I'd ask you to just feel a day Inside the quiet when you go astray. Trace the hours I walk alone, And taste the weight of an empty home. No anger, not just aching space, Where once you stood, there’s now your trace. Your laughter is gone, your warmth forgone And silence filled where you once shone That’s where my love has made its place Not in the light, but in the grace Of holding on through all that’s missed, And loving still through every twist So if you ever question me, Don’t ask for proof or poetry Just stay away and you will see The pain your absence makes of me