And There You Were Poem by Megan Dugan

Gone.
Long gone
How long?
How was I to know?
So I wondered, watched and waited
Worried, wishful and wasted
So much energy
Trying to understand
What was happening to me
My emotions running high and low
From laughing to crying
Living to dying
Would you be back?
That is what I need to know
So I wondered, watched and wasted
So much energy
Burning up my imagination
So I decided to let you go
And took the steps
To free myself
With one last step
I waited
There was no rush to find
That you wouldn’t be back

And then, there you were…