As long as you were there...

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Countless hours that you were there,
Never knew the need for you,
Just knew your presence there,
Rarely felt the time for you;

Seldom acknowledged your silent greeting,
Never answered your wordless smile,
Yet a propinquity unknown somewhere,
Hardly found probing it worthwhile;

Till the time you had to go,
Till the moment you had to leave,
Then realisation slowly dawned,
The sudden shock...measureless grief.

Won't you ever come back again?
Sit once more in that corner of yours,
I pledge, I promise, I'll give everything way,
For that silent greeting, wordless smile of yours...