In Your Absence

The core of me intently listens
          to that which, in your absence, I merely
                        imagined having heard;

                  Once again, I speak eloquently
        of that which, when you were away, I only
                           mumbled to myself;

        And, surefooted, I pick my way in the dark
           where, without you, I tumbled and fell.
                                  Thank you.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2007

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