Void

I have learned
The best remedy for a void
Is not distraction.
Nor denial.
Let it be
Let it live
And breathe.
So that one day,
You may learn
To coexist with it.

The fading woman

She begins to fade away
Bit by bit
First, from view
Then, her voice
Until you won't find
Any trace of her
But did she leave behind
An emptiness
from what once was
Or a nothingness
that has always been there?