Absence

Absence and Memory

And Absence is an emissary

For Memory.

Trailing breadcrumbs,

Coaxing you into your past,

It leads you

To longing_

Not wanting_

To turn back

Is a mistake no one can afford to make,

Yet they all do,

Making it easier to prey

On nostalgia,

On regret,

On languor

Lingering in the gut-

"Ting"

Rings the trolley,

Sending you back

To faded photographs

In which the only thing absent

Is who you were.