Very real, Bill. Vivid, true in its conceptual being. How departure feels.
On Tue, Nov 27, 2018, 2:01 PM Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask] wrote:
> Someone you care about
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> will leave the table
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> and not come back
>
>
> will become
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> an absence
>
>
> riding in a different
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> compartment
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>
> Your head will not seem ample
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> to carry their legacy
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>
> All that proximity
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> once so available
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> now so fled
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>
> 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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