Empty/Full

Part One: Full

You filled my life with music

Major chords and resolutions

up high and way down low

You filled my life with laughter

Tinkling like staircase wind chimes

above a lonely rose

You filled my life with writing

Pages and pages of pen marks

filled to the brim with prose

You filled my life with meaning

From your eyes to hair to body

from your head to your toes

You filled my life with promise

A future-like seed in your hand

that you never did sow

You filled my life with wishes

They piled so high that they blocked

out the light, nothing grows

You filled my life with music

But laughter and words aren’t enough

You never planted that seed of promise

And so I left you alone.

Part Two: Empty

I emptied your life of its music

Now that we are forever cleft

the piano has gone out of tune

I emptied your life of its laughter

The water is still and the air dead

save for the haunting loon

I emptied your life of its writing

Words are no longer friends of yours

they wait in my bedroom

I emptied your life of its meaning

You search and you search for a sign

but can’t translate the runes

I emptied your life of its promise

You hold tight the future-like seed

and you stare at the moon

I emptied your life of its wishes

As darkness falls you think I would

do anything for you

I emptied your life of its music

And what is life without laughter

You walk away from me and the world

Never once looking back

Leaving me alone