More poems by Mrs. Aaron Lee Allan

If only he knew

Every night is harder than the next
I never know if he will be there or not
I hope and pray
Yet he never comes to me
For years I’ve waited for him to come
And swept me off my feet and take me away from
From all this craziness going on around me
How I yearn for his arms around me
How I crave just to see his smile or hear his voice
Just once is all I ask
Yet that seems to be the only problem
There’s a chance he will come back to me alive
And there’s a chance he will come back to me in a box
I feel like I haven’t seen him in ages
Yet it only has been a few days
Already I can see his smiling face in my head
This is probably why I never sleep at night
When I lay in my bed as the moon rises high
I close my eyes and all I see is him smiling
But when I open my eye reality hits
And it hits hard
When I dream I see me and him together smiling
Yet as soon as my eyes open to the dawn of the day
I realize that he’s still away from my family
But most importantly
He’s away from me
But no matter if he’s here or there I know something
Something that keeps me going time and time again
I know he loves me and he’s in my heart
I love him too and I’m sure I’m in his too
He’s in my prayers every night
But it’s still a living hell without him
If he only knew