Since You Been Gone. Poem by MIRAK Montiel

'Since You've Been Gone'

Silently, I call for you,
To calm these storms that rage within.
Life has been a waking nightmare
Since the moment you left this world.

There are no words to hold this pain,
No voice that soothes the ache I feel.
Each day without you cuts me deep—
A wound that time refuses to heal.

The mirror frightens me these days,
Reflecting someone I don't know—
A hollow shape, a darkened cloud,
Just drifting through life, lost and slow.

I searched for love in many faces,
In places where the bright lights shine,
But none could match the warmth you gave,
No love has felt as strong as thine.

And Mom, I wonder—was life fair?
Because now that you are gone,
My brother and I, like strangers now,
Just echoes of the bond we had drawn.

It seems your love was the glue,
The thread that kept our hearts aligned.
Now silence sits where laughter lived,
And memories haunt what we can't find.

So I write beneath my darkest nights,
Pouring ink from broken soul.
Hoping one day, through these lines,
I might again feel whole. MIRAK