The whispering of your voice still echoes all around
The smell of your perfume suffocates the air I breathe
Your picture still hangs in a frame on the wall
You still linger deep on my mind

The crease in the pillow where your head once lay
The stains upon the sheets of where we made passionate love
The cold dark nights in which I held you tight
You still linger deep on my mind

That day you departed, without saying goodbye
The echo of my loneliness which you left behind
Every ounce of your presence stains these four walls

So I lit a match and burned it all to the ground

So you could no more linger deep on my mind!

I was considering entering this into the competition, but I may have another for that so thought share this. It's a reworking of one I wrote a few weeks ago and not posted, told that it could be improved upon, but unfortunately the help I'd hoped for never materialized. So here goes my own attempt at rewriting it. I'm still not entirely happy with it, but I did what I could with it.