How can the sun still shine so brightly birds sing and circle cloudless sky in flight flowers bloom still fragrant as ever and day still roll on gently into night? How can the shopping precincts be so full and television programmes be the same and music on the airwaves keep on playing and never once a mention of your name? How can ordinary things that once I took for granted continue on as though things are just the same and everywhere your memory is planted and every breath I take breathes out your name Take away the laughter, take those who still naive have life intact, take all the colour from the world it has no place here for my own world is shrouded now in black. I wander round our old familiar places, recalling you and how we used to be, Around me just gaps and empty spaces And words that bring no comfort yet to me. (Alex James)