Where are you? And why, I wonder as I sit
alone in a darkened house, have we been forced apart?
I don't know the answer
to these questions, no matter how hard I try to understand. The reason
is plain, but my mind forces me to dismiss it and I am torn by anxiety in
all my waking hours. I am lost without you. I am soulless, a drifter
without a home, a solitary bird in a flight to nowhere. I am all these
things, and I am nothing at all. This, my darling, is my life without you. I
long for you to show me how to live again.
I try to remember the
way we once were, on the breezy deck of Happenstance. Do you recall how we
worked on her together? We became a part of the ocean as we rebuilt her, for we
both knew it was the ocean that brought us together. It was times like
those that I understood the meaning of true happiness. At night, we sailed
on blackened water and I watched as the moonlight reflected your beauty. I
would watch you with awe and know in my heart that we'd be together forever.
Is it always that way, I wonder, when two people are in love? I don't
know, but if my life since you were taken from me is any indication, then
I think I know the answers. From now on, I know I will be alone.
I think of you, I dream
of you, I conjure you up when I need you most. This is all I can do, but
to me it isn't enough. It will never be enough, this I know, yet what else
is there for me to do? If you were here, you would tell me, but I have
been cheated of even that. You always knew the proper words to ease the
pain I felt. You always knew how to make me feel good inside.
Is it possible that you
know how I feel without you? When I dream, I like to think you do.
Before we came together, I moved through life without meaning, without
reason. I know that somehow, every step I took since the moment I could
walk was a step toward finding you. We were destined to be together.
But now, alone in my
house, I have come to realize that destiny can hurt a person as much as
it can bless him, and I find myself wondering why--out of all the people
in all the world I could ever have loved--I had to fall in love with
someone who was taken away from me.
