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Absent Emotion
by Ross Walden

“Are you in there?” you ask.  No answer. And
eventually you shake your head and walk away. 
I figure you’re finally on to me.  When these things
come over me, I’m gone – and no amount of love, or anger,
or finger-snapping will bring me out of it.  I’m simply…

Gone.

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While I've been gone
I have been silent
I've had no words
to write, to say

I've simply been away.

While I've been gone
I’ve been weary
Weary of the way
Things are - so I'm done

Simply done.

While I've been gone,
I’ve been quiet
I’ve done little but think
Stayed off to the side

From morning 'til night
As I hide from myself,
my children, my wife.
And now that I'm here

Still, I’ve nothing to say.

Little has happened
To change how I feel
And I'm no better now
Than I was yesterday.

Of all that I’ve lost
Since this started
What I miss the most
Are not the people I’ve lost

But the ones I know
Will go away.
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