tag:dreamwidth.org,2013-05-12:2014669 (are we there yet?) kokopelle 2016-06-25T15:54:51Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2013-05-12:2014669:641154 2016-06-25T15:54:51Z 2016-06-25T15:54:51Z contemplative public 0 A second year of Lindy Exchange dance weekend has faces missing from the dance. This inspired me to write the somber poem “The Absent One”. <br /><br /><br />The Absent One<br /><br />There was a hole where you should be<br />a gap in space incomplete<br />by the one that should be here<br />by the one absent from this place.<br /><br />In the past it was so easy<br />to anticipate you'd be there<br />now I wonder if I had sinned<br />to assume the best in my life.<br /><br />We danced together under stars<br />when time stood still in recompense<br />for two fools who owned the world<br />before life unjoined the two of us.<br /><br />There is no fault here at hand<br />as life decides the circumstance<br />of people meeting along the way<br />as time unwinds as it may.<br /><br />This does lessen my heart's pain<br />the longing for what we had<br />I am here and you are not<br />this I know about the absent one.<br /><br />© 2016, Sean Green. All Rights Reserved, 20160625.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=kokopelle&ditemid=641154" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments