Your every absence is a presence of death:
Each time you go away, for a minute or a day,
I know the life that will come without you.

Your every absence is a star, beckoning
From some lost moment, when I failed to smile
Or smother you in warmth and longing.

When you leave, the world will be free of me.
Also: I will not leave you there, lost in waiting.
My shadow will stay here, but I will be there,
Waiting.