7/9/11

When You're Away
By Emily Martinez


When you’re away

I want to sleep all day to see your face, sleep in your embrace.

I smell my pillow, search for your scent, hope it still lingers when you’re absent.

I slip into something big, pretend it’s your body around me

You’re a misty mirage, a ghost that stalks me, and I too am empty

Awake here, but hollow, living through my dreams, expressionless, solemn.

Just trying to remember the taste of your lips, when our faces are close, the feel of your kiss.

Now hearing your voice is breathtaking, like the sea whispers your breath to the beach,

As if the rising sun was speaking to me, you leave me shaking.

If the silent moon had something to say, she’d borrow your voice, just for one day.

And while you’re away, she comes back to me,

Sheds your caress upon my face,

While I dream, while I’m awake.


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I am a sophomore at Binghamton University, and I write poetry, particularly about love. I would like to be a fiction novelist in the future, but for now, as an English major I enjoy reading and studying the classics.