Except to Me

[thisnewday]

The pain which
these days
lives in me,
the accumulated
injuries

from all the
jobs i've worked
from all the
years i've lived

and from
the loss
of other things
i've loved,

is nothing
next to this
and yet

he is not
lost
except to
me,
he is not
gone
except from
here:

this place
which was his home
and now
no longer is...

LPK
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9.5.2006 (a)