"Illusion"

I can still see you in the shadowed light--
Feel your skin beneath my fingertips.
I can smell your cologne when I close my eyes,
And taste the gentle sweetness of your lips.
I ache when I think of you again,
And my eyes leak out our memories.
This cold emptiness that greets me now
Drowns me in insanity.
Your laughter echoes so distinctly,
And I find you in the places we used to go.
A whisper, a glance, something unreal. . .
Waiting impatiently for you to show
I shrink back into that time again,
Lingering in light that is just a dream,
Panicked, broken and lost without you,
Reality always wakes me on a scream.
I can still see and feel you there,
Though time by now should have let me forget.
Desperately hoping without a reason
While reading that moment when you left.