Love Not Gone

So long had he been lost,
she waited for him at any cost.

Calling out his name,
only for her shouts to be drowned in the rain.
Had there been forcing toying with her like it was a game?
Still she endured all of the pain.

A lover lost to time and war,
word returned to her ears from afar.
The broken widow wept for weeks,
until her tears turned to blood running down her cheeks.

"Are still here, with your arms around me?
clinging to the light that keeps the darkness at bay?
Will you show yourself so that I may see?
Or, are you gone too far away?"

She asked to the hollows of her lonely home,
no answer was giving, not even the sound of mice would roam.
Her heart shattered into little shards,
like a flimsy house made out of cards.

"Oh, how I long for just the memory of the taste from your lips,
Even in death, I wish to feel the icy grip of your fingertips.
Please my love just answer me,
I refuse to live on without clarity!"

Still her words fell short upon deaf ears,
yet she carried on for a few more years.
Just when all hope had seemed to be lost,
her bedroom window had become covered in frost.

Written within the icy glass,
words that brought clarity at last.
The weeping widow could finally rest peacefully,
knowing that her love would never go easily.

Many morning passed since then,
but, her love never returned again.
a cold chilled her down to the bone,
but, she accepted that her love was never really gone.