Sunday, May 26, 2024

That absence April 15, 2024

  

It is unavoidable

I can’t cease thinking

About it,

The consequences of it,

What is and what it is not,

How I recall it feeling

When I held it,

And the feeling

When it slipped away,

A memory of softness,

Of something utterly sweet,

And the lack of

Suffered from.

I can’t cease to think

About it,

Remember it,

Feel how lost

I am without it,

Carrying that absence

Around inside me,

Pieces of it,

Tumbling around

Unable to come back

Together

As it once was,

Coming together instead

In odd configurations,

Or what it never was,

And I think about it,

Always,

And always will.

 


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