It Has Been So Long...

It has been so long since I last saw you… I am afraid that I may have forgotten To seek your sight In places that I go: Without my being there. You have been with me for so long… I no longer count the seasons, The quivery stars, the glances we imparted… I have been wandering through years, lost and alone; Alone with your phantom, looking for you: It felt so lonely… Yet, not lonelier and desolate than now, When you seldom appear to me: It's been so long, my dearest…! Sometimes, in my dreams, I wake up with a teardrop dripping down my face: Washing you away, taking you further from me: I can no longer hold you In this tired mind of mine the way I used to: I lost you with losing myself. Bereft of love—I am bereft of life: You cannot survive in an empty shell! For that is what I have become: An empty shell, rustling aimlessly In a mad ocean…