I came looking for you <br />as I do several times a day <br /> <br />as minutes pass hours slow lost daily <br />in life is a hole a dark gaping vacancy <br /> <br />no one is watching me eating <br />no one is watching me sleeping <br /> <br />no one eating or watching me all asleep <br />in an empty silent house is heard not a peep <br /> <br />empty house stretching into silences <br />empty house leaves pointless mileages<br /><br />Terence G. Craddock<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/dearly-departed-leaves-echoing-silences/