The world is unchanged now: <br />The sounds and appearances are the same <br />There is the same gravity, law of cause and effect <br />But a subtle difference rides beneath it all <br />Everything I touch has a hollowed out space <br />As if the very heart had been wrenched out; <br />Cut loose on the inside, leaving no single wound or dropp of blood, <br />Or even a gaping, to show for it; no one would suspect <br />That the soul of all things has been snatched away, abducted <br />By a fierce wind, random chance, unhappy error- <br />It's all smooth facade now, of a scintillating, false brightness <br />Because you are not here.<br /><br />Patti Masterman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/you-are-not-here/
