Hollow

I am raw, laid bare

emptied out and hollow

My smile is false

My laughter tinged with sorrow

you were there for me and now

your absence echoes in my mind

I rage against the fates

I didn't have enough time

to say all I could say

everything that I wanted

I didn't tell you I loved you enough

and now I'm forever haunted

by the could have's and should have's

what I would have done differently

if I'd know our time would be cut short

all conversations on hold indefinitely

the jagged knife of loss cuts deep

I bleed a little more each day

to hug and kiss you just once more

there's nothing I wouldn't pay

but this goodbye was forever

total, absolute, unbending

and I'm left to weep over you

counting the days seemingly never-ending