Where Does Everything Go?
Atomic displacement
A Feeling someone
left the room
just before you
got there
Not a scent
Not a wayward
strand of hair
lingering among the dust
not a thumb smudge
on a tumbler
A Feeling
Deeper than skin
receptors
vibration
that hasn’t stopped
echoing
When the Feeling
leaves
Where does it go?
Everything stays
Water to wine
wood to fire
Skin to putrefaction
All collected in the
balance
The missing element
unbalancing the scales
Something goes
Love to apathy
Hate to acceptance
Grief to nostalgia
to melancholy
to despair
to
to
to
nothing
Not every particle
walked out the door
Not every element
covalent bonding
Not everything
stays
The ones behind
know
not everything
goes
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