"Memory"

When I turn around to see you there,
Your shadow fades like smoke.
The dream that lived behind my eyes
Died eagerly when I awoke.
When I reach out to you in blindness,
Your warmth was just one more fantasy.
The lingering traces that disappear
Of what now I see as memory.
When I call to you without an answer,
Echoes fill these empty walls.
The silence that seems so ever-lasting
Is a reminder that never worked at all.
When I remember how you used to be,
I can see us happy once again,
But the reality I'm faced with every day
Remind me we will never be the way we were then.