"I wonder..

why I miss
the choices I never made,
the days I never spent,
the lives I never lived,
the dreams I never dreamt,
the memories I never had,
the pains which I never endured.

It is not that Life seems meaningless without you,
Or the world any less grotesque
Or science any less profound or art uninspiring and religion any less hypocritical
Or literature less intricate and philosophy any less boring.
It is not that Life is nothing but the occasional burst of laughter rising above the interminable wail of grief

Maybe,
It is just that we met,
and somehow lost an era we almost had."
-Dawn Thomas
one of the best I have come across, strikes too many chords and thus shamelessly reproduced