Yet You're Not

you're gone.
yet you're not.
never having left my heart.
does the world understand
that you'll never really be gone?
the love i have for you,
the love you so freely gave me,
whirls in my heart
and beats against my lungs.
and my soul screams that
our love lives on forever -
and you will never truly be gone.
© Terri St. Cloud