One month to the day that I saw him last

He will leave me here & a long shadow cast...

He will leave for six years & in all of that time

I may never see him or claim him as mine...

He won't want what's left though I'll smile for him...

He won't see me suffer

He won't see me swim

through the ocean that surrounds me...

These emotions that drown me...

These feelings that refuse to just go away.

He won't hear my laughter

when my lips kiss disaster...

He won't know I'm crying

on the dark morning after...

He won't know it Monday:

A month to the day.