Someone you care about
will leave the table
and not come back
will become
an absence
riding in a different
compartment
Your head will not seem ample
to carry their legacy
All that proximity
once so available
now so fled
The de-parted
no longer attached
don’t so much shift
to some other plateau
as dog our steps,
blunder into our dreams
You never know
as you turn a corner
of thought
when they might approach
bw
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