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Your Absence
Sometimes your absence calls me
and makes me turn my head
so I look back again
and again,
and again,
seeing if you're there,
but then your absence mocks me
and asks if I know what the word
"absent"
even means.
Soon I get sick of it--
doesn't your absence see
that another presence is calling me forward?
That another presence is filling
the void in my heart
and helping reorganize the mess
your absence thoughtlessly left behind?
Doesn't your absence know
that there's no room in my world
for it to linger
any longer?
Because it takes up so much space
yet consists
of nothing,
so it doesn't really matter anymore,
does it?
One day, I call back to it--
"Hey," I shout,
"I'm forgetting you,
okay?"
Your silence replies,
"Okay."
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