waking in total darkness
I lay here
trying to think of what awakened me
it had been something?
wrapping myself in my blankets
I can feel my body shiver
the cold seemed in another place from where I was
but it wasn't
it was here
because you are not.
Eila Mahima Jaipaul
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/absence-is-cold/
