Chilekezi Adaobi Poet Free verse

Unwritten Absence

Why don't I feel your absence?
A painful absence that should tear at my soul
Why don't I feel your absence?
A suffocating absence that should consume my breath
Why?

I reach out
Hoping to hold you
But my hands grasp at thin air
Leaving me lost and feeling small
Reminding me...

Unspoken words
Unwritten absence 
Unexpressed thoughts 
Are all I have
Because you aren't here.

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Ink Empress September 29, 2023 at 3:34 AM Unexpressed thoughts are all you have because now all that you can feel is empty air … feeling of loss so well expressed here i really felt those emotions youve written here so effortlessly! Poignant and touching take that fits the theme of the prompt. Those opening lines too stood out for me. A fave for me. Congratulations on winning