In That Empty Space

I listened as your footsteps left my life

Their faraway sound could be the

Beat to my ballad

I still hear it sometimes

With a pace as slow as my heart

If it were years ago

It would probably race

To chase you

But now is where I am

And you’re not here now

The stars too distant to read

But I swear they spelled good-bye

Now here I am

Fallen from love

To a world that never felt me coming

And I’m learning as I hear and see

I am discovering who I am

Each highway a possibility

Everyday is a beginning

With less and less familiarity

Sometimes those footsteps come back

Just to leave again

I hope one day they stay away

But for now, the echoes

Reside in that empty space.

I live when they leave

Sometimes for two nights or more

To get wasted

Until sobriety carries them

 back on its wagon

Time to fill up on all things not you

And leave a “no vacancy”