A thought out of place

Your presence lingers,
like the shadow beneath me,
the perfume in the air,
and the whims of the wind.

A twinkling star, light-years away,
space between us, night and day
a single thought out of place
In silence, an echo of a beating heartache,

Once in my hopes, dreams, and prayers,
now gone with the weather,
even with passing days on the calendar,
apparently, what is gone is not lost forever.