I search for you at the bottom of every bottle.
I drown in the liquor, lapping at the numbing power the sweet elixir holds.
I wake in strange places, with strange people who are not you.
My loneliness throws itself against the corners of my mind, all the while screaming your name.
Where have you gone?
I drive the moonlit streets alone now.
Your ghost rides ever-present in the seat beside me.
The music fills the empty air that once was filled by your kind voice.
The billowing white clouds that once poured from your mouth to dance across my nose have long since disappeared.
And here I am; without you…
~ l m d