You're Gone

I look for you everywhere.

Each one like you makes me stare.

It's like a little game I play.

I can't accept that you went away.

Are they hiding you to keep you safe?

I wish just once I could see your face.

I refuse to believe you would make that choice.

Especially when sometimes I can still hear your voice.

I dream of the day you walk through the door.

I promise to forgive and love you even more.

I won't ask any questions, this I swear.

I'll leave here and follow you anywhere.

Are you watching us from afar?

Was that you in the passing car?

Please stop this game you're playing with me.

Come back home where you're supposed to be.

Today I go to visit you.

Now pretending is hard to do.

The truth is something I must face.

As I walk through the others in this place.

The game must stop here where I cry all alone.

As I trace your name with my finger and kiss your headstone.

You're gone and never coming back.

No amount of pretending will change that fact.