Love Poem: When the Love Is Gone
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Written by: Julie Taylor

When the Love Is Gone

Before I met you this emptiness lived inside of me
Nothing lived here, there was to much space
Emptiness dwelled inside of me refusing to leave me alone
So emptiness unpacked it's bags and crawled inside of me and found a place 
called 
home

It made to much noise
Refused to pay the rent
Was late on paying the bills
Got the lights cut off
There was no gas
So my heart grew cold

Than I met you 
And emptiness got bored 
Packed it's bags and left
Left no forwarding address, where it could be reached

And love was passing by
Had no place to go
No place to call home
And one evening it knocked 
And the door  was open
Because emptiness forgot to lock it

So love came in
Saw what it could see 
Unpacked it's bags and it possessed me
It filled me up
Until there was no space for nothing else

It threw wild parties
Never turned off the lights
Kept the neighbors up at night

It told bad jokes
It made me laugh
I never felt cold
It kept me warm
Always a smile on my face
It reached inside of me with all that it had and it made me feel safe

For I knew love was with me forever and would never leave
And than you left
And one morning I awoke and found love not laying beside me
It stayed out all night
Didn't even call
I searched and searched and could not find it
I wondered where it was and why did it leave
Damn it, why did it leave without telling me

Days passed and love was no where to be found
The bills were over due 
I felt so all alone 
Love didn't come home
like it always did

One day love appeared
Never said where it had been
From that moment I knew something had changed
It went to bed early 
Turned off all the lights
Didn't  keep me up at night

Didn't even smile
Days passed by and inside of me got quite
I couldn't feel a thing 
I was still inside

I went to visit love
Because it hadn't been by
I knocked on the door 
And the door opened
So I went inside
The lights weren't on
All the furniture was gone

I looked inside of me
and saw emptiness forwarding address
laying next to my heart

No more need for me to explore
For I knew from that moment as I walked through the door
Just like you
Love didn’t live here anymore

It didn’t call
Won’t answer the phone
So am asking you
What do you do, when the Love is gone