Simple Lyric - Caroline Lavelle

The space his leaving creates

I have tried to fill

With bodies that numbed my skin

In them I had expected to find his opposites;

I found only forgeries

He’s away and I cannot breathe him in

When I think of his sparkling face

And of his body that rocked me this way and that;

When I think of his laughter

His jubilance that filled me

It’s a wonder I’m not gone mad

He’s away and I cannot breathe him in

He is a fiction I’ve made

Yet I cannot stop longing for him

Craving sensation new flesh

Cannot wholly calm;

Perhaps it’s for more than him

He’s away and I cannot breathe him in