In the way I thought I knew how
I embraced your emptiness
Gathering it in my arms.

I peered into your shallows
unable to fathom the depths
that entrenched you.

Caressing the edges of your void
I sought to replenish you
by spilling my affection.

You told me your soul
had long been ravaged by absence
and that you were now solitude.

Adrift with your sorrows
you never looked back
to see if I were drowning.