Stephanie van Oudtshoorn - Empty Spaces

there are many things in life
that can make the heart
be more
of a whole

most spaces you need to understand
and fill for yourself
some are filled only
by love
given to another

when you left
you took that part of me
i can live without it
but without it
i can't know happiness
or feel complete

return the piece of my heart
you stole
its mine to give
never yours to keep

you left me
with an empty space
return what you stole
so that the empty space
can become whole


10 September 2005

Stephanie van Oudtshoorn

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