Obviously, your impending time apart is playing on your emotions. But there is something else. In your dream, your lover represents an aspect of your action or behavior. The traits that you would use to describe his personality, are the very traits within you that are being addressed. Death symbolizes change, so this means that a part of your behavior has changed. Your room represents a part of your mind and in it, you are going over the things you used to do. The paper clip indicates organization or just 'keeping it together'. Look over your life and see where some changes have taken place that makes you feel as if you can't hold it together. It might just be that he will leave. Know that the strength and certainty that you got from him already belongs to you. God bless.