the absence poems: 5/27 3
5/27: x days before you leave
it seems you’re not leaving anymore
but your absence still lingers heavy
like a greedy ghost
I bet you’re wondering how I’m still
haunted when you’re alive and beside me
(it’s painful, the doubleness)
I want to tell you you’re like a shadow stretching
in multiple directions and consuming
a city and there is no one to stop the darkness
because how can you stop light
from leaving
(you can’t even close your eyes to it)
you are a body beside me and a body collapsing
before me and the time it takes to reach you
as you go is always too long
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