Out of Nowhere

Sometimes
the missing of you is the
sum of what I have left
Even after all this time
Even when silence
has been your watchword
for what feels like eons.

It comes at the strangest times
This longing for you
This ache in the emptiness
of where you used to be

And logically
I know that it is better this way
But somehow
My heart hasn't yet caught up
with my head
And I'm left breathless
from the sudden
overwhelming thump
of the wave of missing you
that comes,
inappropriately,
painfully,
unbidden,
out of nowhere.

© Tanya Anguita