Thoughts in the Middle of the Night

I wake with a start
expecting your elegant arms
to wrap faithfully around me.
Expecting your voice to calm
my violently thrashing soul.
Expecting you to say that it
will be alright for our love
will prevail and reassure every
careless cliche spoken about love.
Yet ,instead, my waist lays barren
of your amourous arms. Instead,
Silence stings my soul. Instead,
I yearn for your tantalizing touch
just one more time.
I miss watching your
beautiful body breathe carelessly
as you drift around in the dream world.
I miss placing my arms around you
just to know that you were real.
Yet, you left me alone, lonely and
scared. Scared that I will never
encounter love like yours again.