Echoes

Footsteps rang in the silence
Light feet weighing tonnes.

Tears shone like ice
on a face,
aged without time.

Eyes gazed with no expression
onto familiar pathways.

Loneliness swamped shoulders
unused to the burden,
while emptiness fills
a once thriving mind.

Pain ached
in that once joyful heart,
howling
in loss,
in agony.

They say it will pass,
in time,
but the loss is great.

Someone is lost in echoes.