I'm sorry for your loss. Why do people say this? When someone you love is taken away from you, when a part of you dies with them, you don't lose them the way you lose your car keys or your cell phone. They don't end up tucked between couch cushions or forgotten in the ignition for you to find later. They were not put somewhere absent-mindedly and forgotten. You will never lose them because they live in your heart. The soul-wrenching pain that burns your lungs with every breath comes from knowing that you cannot be there for them where they are now. The ugly and genuine feeling of grief is left in the past.I'm sorry they left you.I'm sorry you're alone.I'm sorry you're hurt.Nothing compares to loss.She was my first love.And she was my last. She left me. There is only emptiness inside me, even though I pretend that I have love for those who remained when she left. Our little girl and newborn son need me. Now I am both mother and father. I am empty, there is nothing left inside me .I am a shell. Then why does a girl with the face of an angel and eyes that reflect my emptiness look at me as if I mean everything to her?