there lies in the world

an infinite number of ways

to tell them of your longing

to express the feeling resonating

within your hearts hollow chambers

except when you cannot

when they have moved on

and left you behind

why then

do you continue to think of them

into the hours beyond night

you lie awake

dreaming of all that you were

all that you are

and all that you could have been

while you wait for their return

they are creating new memories

your place filled with another

those chapters in your lives

the pages etched with your memory

torn from their book

and burned

to give space for someone new

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saudade. [soh-dah-duh] (in Portuguese folk culture) a deep emotional state of melancholic longing for a person or thing that is absent: the theme of saudade in literature and music.