Sitting by your side.....

I feel love's warmth. ....

wanting to talk to you. ........

laugh, and have fun.....

.

But....somehow. ...

creeping. ....in between. ...

a pall of silence. ....

my words cannot pierce. ...

an immeasurable. ..sadness...

a gulf ....that screams.....

back the echoes of our dreams.....

.

I see you ....lost. ...

in your thoughts. ......

my presence......is an absence....

in your reality. .....

I fall silent.......

there is nothing ....I can do.....

but to hold on......

to this farce of an act......

hoping.....I might just get through....

.

Alone. ...by your side ......

just to be with you. .....