I couldn't breathe.  It was as though the wind had been knocked out of me.  My knees were weak and I couldn't stand.  There was no way to imagine that life could go on without you.  I couldn't remember my life before you.  Suddenly, you were all that I knew, and there was nothing else.  there I was, feeling homeless and lost, because, without you there would be only the cold empty dark barren night, with no warm embrace to cling to... no heart to call my home.  I thought I would die.  I prayed only for the strength to face this world alone... without you.