Familiar with you

I'm so familiar with the absence of you

I cannot reach out to touch your sun bleached skin

I cannot kiss your lips of sun setting clouds I cannot provide you the warmth on a cold night

Nor can I see the emeralds that are your eyes swimming in seas trapped in socket

But.

I can hear your voice in every direction

Every message

Every letter sent

It's like you're reading it to me

Every song you send I can hear your not-so

-soothe-singing

I can hear your laughter in all our fantasies And I can hear you sob with every teardrop sent to me.

You're like a voicemail

Prerecorded

And saved to my internal memory

A default setting

That can't be erased from me