MISSING YOU

The beat of your heart
the softness of your cheek
the smile in your eyes
the touch of your hands
have all been emblazoned
on my longing heart,
a heart that is ever
in search of your word
in search of your voice
in search of you
my love.

As mother misses child
as dark misses light
as sadness misses joy
as absence misses presence
so too does my lonely heart
desperately quenchless
require the aura of your person
for it to thrive, blossom, survive,
as much as yours,
my precious love, needs mine.

 

Herbert Holzbauer
© July 2002

Midi: "Missing Each Other"

Art: "Absence"