Thursday, October 9, 2014

THE ONLY TRUE GOODBYE IS SILENCE

The only true goodbye is silence
mocking you as you argue with it
Words like gone don’t make noise
The song of the burnt forest
once the fire is completely out
Green tree memory mantra
that never delivers
The was of it
The quieter ever louder and louder
Absence gloating in the present
No act of contrition or expression
can relieve it
No act period.
The meaning of that
only after the final punctuation
A period longing
to drop its mouth open
and become a comma

The brutal past-tense of lost

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