Walking through a crowded room, my veins turn to ice and the feeling of emptiness swallows me leaving more alone and frozen than I began.

Faces with no names become blurred like various colors of paint mixed into one.

The only comfort that begins to defrost my veins is the image of your fading smile in my mind.

I miss the ease in which I felt by your side riding into the black of the night without a care of where we were heading.

My daydreams cease at the sound of sirens passing me by in the street.

Reality is more ruthless than the dreams that torment me.

I wander aimlessly along busy sidewalks,

A ghastly fog hangs over the city filling my lungs taking bits of my life force.

I find a park and stop to admire the few remaining trees, and I begin to wonder why society does not appreciate them more

Entranced by the bitterness of the reality in which I stare at

You appear beside me, but I do not notice you

You walk away without a trace and disappear in the fog

Realizing you had come and gone, I curse myself and the world around me.

I try to sleep at night, but thunder echoes across the vast mountains that cascade my mind.

Voices in the forest whisper your name.

Sleep is what I cannot get but what I most need.

I get up from bed, and walk outside in the coolness of the night.

My home lies just outside the city and it is a whole new world.

A full moon illuminates the land, and the stars are more visible than usual.

I lay in the grass and stare into the night sky.

The storm in my mind calms my mind and sleep behind to take over.

I feel a hand grasp my own but I am unable to look before my eyes shut close.

I wake with the sunrise and turn to see if the hand I felt belonged to you.

All that was next to me was an imprint of a body in the dew.

Tears streamed down my face and they clouded my eyes.

A voice says my name and I look up to see you standing over me.

You pull me to my feet and hold me close.

The storm disappears and the voices no longer whisper to me.

The ice in my veins melts and my being no longer feels empty.