Regret Poem by Twilight Whispers

I see you across the room, smiling in all your splendour,
Your smile glowing radiantly as you laugh,
Full of amusement and complete, intense happiness.
I laugh along with you, but as I do so my heart sighs deeply,
As I know that I shall never again caress your face gently
With a calm, endearing passion, full of grace and honesty and desire.
To know that our eyes can meet, each watchful, reluctant gaze
digging deeper into our past - and this is all that can ever happen -
saddens me deeply.

I miss the sound of your voice as you tell me stories of insane incidents,
giggling innocently at the irrationality of your own words,
I miss the feel of your hand upon my shoulder as you take me
into your arms and bury your head deep into my neck,
your breath warm and comforting upon my skin.

I miss your scent, sweet but perfect as you walk swiftly beside me,
it fills my lungs with a beautiful energy,
beaming and bursting to dance and to sing so that the whole world hears it's song.

I miss your eyes and how they shine and sparkle and glisten in the midday sun,
I miss your shoes and how you always wear the same pair,
I miss your arms and how they made me feel so incredibly safe when I was wrapped warmly inside them,
I miss the inaudible beating of your heart against mine.

I miss the sound of happiness in your soul and song in your spirit,
I miss the coolness of the rain as it falls reassuringl upon my skin,
the rhythmic drumming of the raindrops a quiet reminder that whilst the sky was cloudy,
I still had you to love me and to shelter me,
to catch my tears when they'd nervously fall.

I miss you, most of all amongst all these things,
I miss the person inside you that
used to reach out to me,
that used to laugh with me and
make me smile so widely I thought
my face would surely break in two.

I miss you,
and I regret that I have to let you go.