I can still feel the days I lived near you.
Drawn in by your voice, all night I would stay.
Within your radius, there was no time.
I was wrong to think I could do without
seeing you almost each and every night.
On your porch I waited, never inside.

I wondered, but never asked what's inside
your black door, hiding what was really you.
As I drove down your street, looking, last night
I saw a piece of you that seemed to stay.
A reminder I could not do without,
A sign you were real   once upon a time.

My heart beats for you, ticking like a time -
piece wound too tight, pressure building inside
me. I am trying to work this without
having, seeing, wanting, or needing you.
I miss you like mad, that feeling will stay
forever in dreams that haunt me by night.

I went to sleep very alone last night.
And I know it will not be the last time
I will dream that next to you I could stay.
Your shadow made my room less cold inside.
My walls sigh at the memory of you
making me smile, and now they do without.

This morning the air is lonely without
your voice. The stars won't rise again tonight.
Not until rest finds me here lacking you
will I be refreshed with the changing time.
But I'll still be waiting for you inside
the porch we met on, forever I'll stay.

Without you I'm just a measure of time.
Nothing to offer tonight from inside
me. I never found words to make you stay.