Absent

"You came home late. For the past two weeks, I've been wondering where you've been. There is always a sense of pride you come home with. Your smile is ever so brighter than if you came back home with me. Come back home, midnight is casting its feeble shadow on you. Come back home, who knows how I'll be or what I'll do without you. You came home, with the biggest smile I'd ever seen. I know that it was not because of me, though. I love to see you like this, but I hate the reason why."