Life fills with absences,
mostly unexcused.
Why-ever you left,
I don't recall signing the slip:
anger? fear? boredom?
distraction? inertia? death?
Life is Swiss cheese
without you.
Text and image © 2014 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved.
February 2021
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