Breathing you

Holding to the shirt you left behind
Breathing deeply your unique scent
I hold you in my arms a while
Wondering where the good times went
From the laughter and love inside
To the tears and love's bad end
I don't cry because it's over
But smile because it happened
If I had not felt you like I had
Lived the life of me and you
Then I would be living half a life
And that's the honest truth
I take a breath of used to be
Then a breath of here and now
I don't cry because it's over
I weep for the why's and how
Within this broken love affair
Beyond papering the cracks
I smile because we happened
And nothing can change all that