The Feeling of Death

When someone dies who is close to us they take a piece of an essence of ourself that we never had to name before. We never had to think about this unfamiliar up-and-down-in-and-out feeling Because it never existed, and was never felt, and thus could have never been mentioned The death feeling, which is totally, utterly taboo and almost exclusively one-of-a-kind I never realized it was there until you came up missing through that awfulness called death.