As If

Okay, I gave it a title.

It’s been almost a week.

His belongings are dispersed,

His place cleared out,

 

Someone else lives there.

Occasional mail returned,

"No longer at this address."

 

It's as if ...

He was never here.

Reviews

[x]

How quickly we forget the forgettable.
I guess the answer is to live splendidly and wildly and to make a mark of some description somewhere on someone....lest we be forgotten.
A simple write which brings the importance of living to us so well.
Thanks greatly for sharing.

[Doreen]

This gave me a kind of creepy, lost feeling. I like this. It shows how we're here and then we're gone and life marches on. Nice. Short and sweet and leaves a lasting impression after the read.

[Tony]

Sometimes people leave a pretty big hole when they leave.
It's usually people we like, I guess, but not always.
Good work on this one, DTG.

[Meaghan M]

You've fit so much in so few words. I personally find it amazing how someone can impact their readers in such a way and all they wrote was 8 lines of text. Well done.

[Emily]

I too find it amazing that people can go from one place to another without ever really leaving a mark. Well said. This was a very thoughtful piece.

[Snapdragon]

That's brilliant. You can really feel the sense of loss and almost disbelief that the world is going on. You did a great job with this one.

[Emily B]

would I be forgotten in only a week? would you? somehow I doubt that our belonging would be lost so quickly

[Ed Hart]

ah, but your poem belies that

[Chloe..Across the Unive..]

A poem within a poem waiting to be written.. or just as it is ... which is very sad and lonely.

Chloe

[J.Black]

Nicely written.