Missing

I wish
I could
hold you
here (make you
laugh and smile
again),
while the world does
its
crumbling
while things
don’t
work the
way we planned
while life
goes
on
missing you
the missing
you
wears on
hopes and fears
continue
in loneliness
away
brief passages
Home
when we
can
when life
goes better than
the way we
planned