as the light breaks through the window , i see it. but i was already awake. it lights the room , but no one is there. i can no longer hear you breathe next to me , or see you in the dark. because you are now gone. i used to wake to hear you breathe , see you next to me . i have done that for 40 years , now is no more. in the light the room is still , silent, lonely. no sounds , no more that one echoed around the room. only the early light dances across from side to side now. with eerie silence i rise and i sit on the bed , where once you where beside me. only memory's now to hold and exist.