GRIEF POETRY

The Absence of Your Presence

Faded memories

Nolcha Fox
Write Under the Moon
Sep 8, 2024

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sand art of woman grieving as she looks at a photo and a bottle of unstopped perfume
Photo by Joseph Corl on Unsplash

Your presence is no
longer present.

Although I sometimes think I hear
you whisper in the shadows of my mind.

Photographs and shadows
fade as time takes scissors to my days.

If my memories pale to nothing
long before I leave this earth,

will I know you when I see you
on the other side of death?

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