I never knew loneliness until I met you
I never noticed before that you were not here
A feeling of halfness instead of being part of one
Something incorrectly one at the heart of two

My bed was never so empty until you were in it
I never noticed just how much I wasn't there
How quietly the spaces envelop me, and I wonder
How I ever slept with all these empty sheets

I never thought I knew the answers this wrong
Until I tried to guess my way through us
And drowned in details worth knowing
About the general and particular, you.

8/21/02