this silence

This silence hangs distant as a star,
Were it not for the memory,
the sunlit blaze of your face --
now turned away, in rare and chilling eclipse,
I would eventually forget and soon smile.

The hardest silence is the difference.

Adrian Hoad-Reddick

 

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