Sweet Absence

When good company's away in Bangkok, when lil sis is away in China, I realise that loneliness makes the loudest noise.
Welcome anxious longings and sense of vacancies, adieu to late nights and sleeping with you.
When stars illume the skies, pangs of desire drag me through these miss you nights.
These miss you nights are the longest, but each break of dawn is a day closer to the next time I see you.
A lonely me, a lonely you, a cloud in my heart, a haze in your mind.
Till we savour the delight of presence, my amorous heart shall pant for you.



I am tired, Beloved,
of chafing my heart against
the want of you;
of squeezing it into little inkdrops,
And posting it.
~Amy Lowell, "The Letter"