Friday, August 23, 2024

The void June 9, 2012

 


 You can’t’ read tea leaves 

if there are no tea leaves to read,

 this limbo we have settled in, 

passing professional messages 

via our professional media,

 locking up forever 

any personal exchanges, 

methadone that keeps 

the patient alive,

 if not thinking, 

waiting for the conditions 

that brought about the need to cease, 

the ache most coming 

during those days of the week 

when there are no

 professional messages to send, 

the ache for what once transpired 

most acute,

 if only in knowing these old,

 sometimes tender exchanges 

can never occur again,

 a silence to all encompassing, 

it is deafening, 

leaving everything in a vacuum,

 this inner space as devoid of life 

as outer space, and yet,

 we still exist in the same orbit, 

and still see each other in passing, 

even if she has moved on

 to explore new possibilities.


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