Absence

 i am sorry for forgetting you

i know i promised not to

i stuck your name between 

the pages of a book

i never got around to finishing.

i dropped your laigh between

my couch cushions,

your hands got swept up with the crumbs.

Your voice - your voice?

You had one, i thought you had one.

you can't blame me

for forgetting you had one.

Truth be told,

you absence 

has not made my heart

grow fonder;

it has made my heart grow stronger...