Bill, for teh most part, this moves directly to those final fine lines. I think it can, as you now think, be many kinds of loss/departure. It seems to me it’s really about that happening, & the other gone, so I’d maybe delete these two lines:
Your head will not seem ample
to carry their legacy
Doug
> On Nov 27, 2018, at 2:01 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Someone you care about
>
> will leave the table
>
> and not come back
>
>
> will become
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> an absence
>
>
> riding in a different
>
> compartment
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>
> Your head will not seem ample
>
> to carry their legacy
>
>
> All that proximity
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> once so available
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> now so fled
>
>
> The de-parted
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> no longer attached
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> don’t so much shift
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> to some other plateau
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>
> as dog our steps,
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> blunder into our dreams
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>
> You never know
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> as you turn a corner
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> of thought
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>
> when they might approach
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>
> bw
>
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