Simple Lyric

The space his leaving creates
I have tried to fill
With bodies that numbed my skin
In them I had expected to find his opposites;
I found only forgeries

He’s away and I cannot breathe him in

When I think of his sparkling face
And of his body that rocked me this way and that;
When I think of his laughter
His jubilance that filled me
It’s a wonder I’m not gone mad

He’s away and I cannot breathe him in
He is a fiction I’ve made
Yet I cannot stop longing for him
Craving sensation new flesh
Cannot wholly calm;
Perhaps it’s for more than him

He’s away and I cannot breathe him in