I miss you

When you are gone

Fighting God knows what war

I ache for you and I miss you

But I have grown enough to know

I cannot let this missing you destroy me

For the love I feel it has no end

Or conditions anymore

I thought when I was young

To win a love

In which two hearts beat as one

But pain and maturity has shown

There is a far deeper love that we can know

The one that lets go

And allows the other to be free

The love that thinks less of its own happiness

If such happiness comes at another’s cost

A love that is strong enough to allow

Separation and difference

And is brave enough to reach for its own happiness

Despite the love it feels

And so when you are gone

Fighting God knows what war

My love has not gone

It still lives on

And I miss you

But not enough to stop living my life

For without my life

My love for both of us

Is worth nothing

And ends in a by far

Too barren place