Disclaimer: I don't own the rights so Sanctuary

Waiting

I sit patiently in the corner

With my tired hands folded in my lap

And my head hung

My hair creating a wall of black

That shields me from the outside world

So I don't have to see them

Moving on without you

Oblivious to your absence

Time passes and I hear them evolve

But I'm waiting behind

So when you return

We can adjust to the new world together

As I sit in my corner

All I can do is count

The days passing without you

My heart beats

The clock going

Tick tock

Tick tock

Every second turns into millennia

A hundred millennia without you by my side

I've watched the outside turn from rock to wood

Wood to stone

And stone to cement

And cement to metal

Everything's changing

But you're still not here

I'm patient but not stone

I can only wait so long

But I'll wait just a bit longer

Because that moment when you push my hair back

And I see that gorgeous smile

You hold my hand like a delicate flower

And you build me up again

It'll seem like only a minute has passed

"Now you listen to me, Nikola Tesla!" Helen said sternly to the apathetic vampire. "Don't go blaming everything on me, and making me feel like utter crap. You left me and I waited. A very long time. I helped you; I helped fake your death. And, you were just gone! Dropped off the face of the Earth and I couldn't find you." She took a breath, "You just disappeared, not a word or a letter or a phone call. Ever. You couldn't tell me you were alright? I missed you. You were my friend, and it seemed as if you died. Then, out of the blue you show up with this insane plan and then tried to kill me." Helen hissed.

Nikola shrunk back a little. "Now, I didn't mean for that-"

"And, then you were gone again. Nikola, you claim that I never cared. But, I did. I've waited, and probably am still waiting for you. You can't keep walking in and out of my life and making me the bad guy, because I'm not. Do you know what you put me through?"

Grief

You were there crying when he walked out the door

And you said nothing as she fell to the floor

Praying to you

And you said 'hurt is part of it'

Swiftly you embrace her shaking body

Shrouding them in everlasting darkness

As they wander alone

Through an endless maze of denial

Leading them like a mouse and cheese

The loss of a loved one is your parting gift

There is nothing to give but

Trembling palms

Wobbly knees

And an endless supply of tissues

My name is Grief

I hang around graves and funerals

I was there hanging my head which is my approval

Encouragement for you to cry

I creep into your mind and soul

Seeping through your skin like the moisture in the air

A disease that shakes the core of you

Cutting down every nerve, setting you on edge

And I settle in your heart like a stone

Weighing you down, pulling you under

Until you can't breathe or see or function

I'm all you think about

All you feel

I hypnotize you with my cold gray hands

Puppeteer my way into your flesh

Walking aimlessly with a blindfold on

As I search and grasp for a ghost

Because I can still feel your presence

It lingers

It haunts me

You constantly whisper in my ear

You've seen all

Sickness

Murder

Death

Abandonment

When you were gone

I had to cry myself to sleep

Because it felt like someone died

The sky had one less shining star

Never did the world seem so dark