Sense Absence In Future Tense

The absence was glaring like an elephant, monstrous,illusive, membranous, diaphanous, obvious to everyone in the room, complicit in joint deception. The unwritten absence, never resolved, never truly dealt with, hung like a pall of smoke you could see, smell and taste, but not hear nor feel. For no one wanted to mention it, nor to transact the fleeting memories into the currency of present tense. The absence was obvious, but was locked away in the past, for sense resolution in future tense.