The Absence
You know but you do not know
You cannot know until it knocks you down
And leaves you dazed and grasping
Like a stray cat in a deep dark hole
My friend who drove his bike
Three hundred miles in blinding wind
and bitter cold for treatments
he could not receive at home
Another who worked hard for a living
Until his spine gave way
Who knows more pain every day
Than I will feel in a lifetime
My sister who went up against
The old boys club for thirty years
Who stared them down and won
My brothers who have been to the point
Of oblivion who balanced on a ledge
And fought their way back again
The younger ones who even now
Are welcoming new life into this strange
and unkind world
My friends family and loved ones
Whom I have always taken for granted
Who were always there when I needed them
I feel their absence now
Like a severed limb
Like a home without furniture
Like a story without end
Like a journey without a destiny
I feel the absence now
Like a stone in my hollow soul
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