Lifeline

Mon, 07/24/2017 - 23:50 -- Kallen4

I miss you

But I don’t know you

I miss your smell

I miss the way you smile

I miss you

But I don’t know your name

I don’t know if you prefer tea or coffee

 Or your favorite color

 I don’t know how your face wrinkles when you smile

Or what you laugh sounds like

But my body

My heart

it knows you

It remembers you from lifetimes past

I remember how being close to you made me feel lighter

I remember what it is like to breathe around you

And until I find you in this lifetime I can’t breathe

Every inhale is cut short

It doesn’t satisfy my need for oxygen

My life is full of heart ache and longing when you are not here

Oh how I hate my body for remembering you so well

You’re like a stain left behind long after you have left my mind

But not my heart

You see that’s the problem

I can’t remember you

I can’t picture you

But my heart can’t stop picturing us

How am I supposed to truly live until I find you

Does your heart remember me to?

Is this our fate?
TO walk around with a hollow chest

Holding our breaths

Just hoping to bump into you

Oh how I await the day that we meet in this lifetime

To see the body you now have

To see how it fits with mine

To have our hearts intertwined again

But until then

This hollow heart of mine will be my reminder of you

I’ll never lose faith in finding

lifetime lover

 

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