Deep Within Absence

Loneliness is gripping me now,
It grabs me by the ways it finds me,
There's something about how long you have been absent that tears me apart;

I can't seem to find you in my arms,
When I was afraid to breathe all I thought of was how I needed you like a child needs their mother;
Or how a father needs his child,

I've been shaken time and time again,
But I refuse to break down,

You hands hold me by the heart;
I've become absent to my failures