“ABSENT”

"ABSENT"

Saturday, 08-29-20

LaWanna R.

Absent...

When I call your name

You're right here -

but you're not the same .

Got used to seeing

Your handsome face.

Now I see you the same

But there's just no trace-

Of the one that I run to

The one that I love,

The one who had others

But put me above...

Other girls, and his friends,

His own needs too...

The one I see now

Equals another, not you.

Should've seen it coming

From 10 miles away.

I've seen it before

On many a day-

You first get that

absent

Look in your eyes-

Your heart leaves

us first,

But you try to disguise

To save feelings and pride,

From your soul to mine.

Don't want me to see

Once again your love dies...

As you think of the things

Come from memories you knew,

Things again that you long for

Things that are untrue.

Once more, grass looks greener

On sides that's not mine

You sneak and you plan

Hold "her" on the line

For the nights that you live for

That used to be mine.

Absence:

it lives here now

For small amounts of time.

Still we do this again

And once more, we go round

I've learned you,

You'll come back -

As we both have found;

The next one to feel

This

absence

will be her,

Thank God, Because next

I'll be what you prefer...

Until you're

absent.