absence

absencelooks like a lake bed flooded with skysounds like cotton howlingtastes like tear-stained pillowssmells like churning bile and burnt hairfeels like screaming agony, my heart dying and dying

You shine brighter than the sun""But even the sun goes away every night""But it is hte sun's absence that makes us feel its power. We know the loss, the beauty and the life that the moon can't replace. That is why we hang on to each day we are given.

My mind couldn't fit itself around the shape of his absence.

I could no longer desire physically without feeling a need for her, without suffering from her absence.

But thou art with us, with us in the past,The present, with us in the times to come.There is no grief, no sorrow, no despair,No languor, no dejection, no dismay,No absence scarcely can there be, for thoseWho love as we do. Speed thee well!

It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.

I just wanted to tell you, how beautiful you were; that day, that night, that life.

I kiss her ghost, and sleep with the dust on her photograph, next to my bedside.

She sheltered her colors in the dark, where others were blind to see; I caught a glimpse of her lastly when she gave me a chance, before disappearing into the day. There was beauty locked in her that unfolded like an umbrella's claw, her true self that desired compassion, trust, protection and the potential to soar. But I missed to late, that what I wasn't looking for, when she left her reasons in the rain.

7. 3. 12. 31. 208: Reckless disrespect of the lightless hours will not be tolerated.

Growth in love comes from a place of absence, where the imagination is left to it__ own devices and creates you to be much more then reality would ever allow.

In the absence of light, you find the brightest parts of you.

loneliness is a great teacher and a master test of character

I lost myself in the burden of trying to be your savior.

The only thing I can recall is that it rained all day and all night, and that when I asked my father whether heaven was crying, he couldn't bring himself to reply. Six years later my mother's absence remained in the air around us, a deafening silence that I had not yet learned to stifle with words.

The reason for the absence of success is not because of lack of money but because of theabsence of the understanding of the principles of success

When the time comes for you to leave this earth, if it doesn__ become a lesser place with your absence, then you have wasted your life.

This is for you, for your breath, whose absence would lessen a greater world.