She sleeps.
She wakes.
The pain
Is crushing.
She looks
for her lover,
But they’re not
There.
She sleeps.
She wakes.
She cries.
The loneliness
Is suffocating.
Memories of
Stolen kisses,
Ghosts on her lips.
She sleeps.
She wakes.
She dreams.
To be in their
Arms once again.
Kim V. Poetry 