emptiness fills the absence

 

a sunflower when sun’s rays don’t pierce the grays

of the day or the pike and walleye when the river

has been polluted or dried from a dam, birds when

the conifers, oaks or maples have been felled

 

and in the absence of this comfort, this familiarity,

emptiness fills the vacuum, vibrancy of spirit wanes

and the sunflower wilts, the pike and walleye no longer

run with the river’s stream and birds seize to sing

 

it is this i feel, my love, in your absence…