For me,
there will never be love
without you.

Others may come,
kind words,gentle hands-
but they will not reach
the place you once filled.

You etched yourself
into the quiet parts of me-
the way light enters a room
just before dawn,
soft,unannounced,
and unforgettable.

I have tried
to open my heart again,
to let someone else
speak your name in a new way.
But every touch
feels like pretending.

You are the measure.
The ache.
The truth beneath the silence.

And no matter how far
time pulls me from that moment
you last looked at me-
I will always carry the weight
of what we were.

Because for me,
there will never be love
without you.