To know someone

And then have them gone

It may just be one face in a crowd

Wiped away

But it never seems to feel the same

Their absence, ever present

Too much air where they once stood

The ghost of their being

Like light shaped by a shadow

Gone like flesh from a gaping wound

I’m bleeding

                    bleeding

                                 bleeding

                                               too

Who am I now that there’s no you?

Was it not last week I saw your face?

You cracked a joke, we played a game

How could that disappear so fast?

You’d think a soul would last

Not a feeble flame extinguished

By a quick stroke of fate

So quick

Too quick

But this disappearing act

Is no magic trick

No longer will I pass my days,

Assuming the next will come

No longer will i see a face

And assume it will be there when day is done

I’ll value more of those I meet

And what I have

And the air I breathe

For things to leave

Gives them value being there

But I’ve lost you now

And it doesn’t feel fair