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NEfor sorrow
When a loved one dies people say they’re mourning over their loss.Like this person was misplaced or forgotten on a shelf at the grocery store
and then picked up by some other customer before you could go back to get it.
But no matter how hard I try:
I’ll never suddenly remember where you are. No drawer is going to be opened for you to pop out again, finally found.
I lost you
I’m lost
And still your presence is everywhere.
In the book you never finished reading
the corner of the page bent
why do you always do that?
to find my place in the book
In your clothes, thrown higgledy-piggledy on a chair that I don’t dare touch
There’s probably a coin in one of the pockets.
A bus ticket.
The one tissue you always forgot to take out before putting your trousers in the washing machine.
You’re in the food in the fridge. The mustard I hated and you ate.
It’s been sitting there for months but I don’t dare throw it away
for fear of feeling the guilt of deliberately dismissing you. You told me you’d stay
with me forever. Now what’s left is mustard.
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