Nostrum
 
I wonder what you're doing
As I look up at the stars
Are you looking at them to?
 
Do you have this empty pain inside you as well?
I walk through my day in a quiet haze.
Never too far from thoughts of you.
 
Are you thinking of me?
 
Smile, talk, push paper from one side of my desk to the other.
Pointless, my mind is no where near my body.
I move to leave and watch myself sit still.
A troubled look on her face.
 
I push you out of my head.
Close the door and lock it behind me.
But as I look ahead I can see you waiting.
 
Are you waiting for me?
 
I reach out and almost touch you.
But you're gone, in an instant, and then I know.
That what I want I'll never have.
 
What I want I shouldn't have.
 
Things like this aren't meant to be.
Not for me and certainly not for us.
If there is such a thing as an us.
So I push you from my thoughts again.
 
What a hilarious mess I've created.
 
Crumpled and twisted, corners folded down awkwardly.
 
A laugh leaves me as I watch nothing.
Just staring ahead, trying too hard not to think.
But still... you keep appearing.
 
I've created a thousand piece jigsaw
But the important parts are missing
So it will sit in pieces, destined to be left unfinished.
 
Just like us.