CCCLXXXV - In Absentia II

Two prompts lead to this work:

1. One Single Impression's prompt for this week is 'Absent'.

2. Imaginary Garden with Real Toads had the prompt to use a tercet or villanelle.

This poem started out as a Villanelle but I cribbed a bit on some of the rhymes

(eg: using -ar and -art) and then sliced and diced it a bit, losing the strict tercet shape.

But I still liked it.  So here it is, for all to see:

In Absentia

In the privacy of my heart

A simple truth is starkly cast:

You are not here.  

And yet you are in my thoughts and never far

From first waking, to the last.

In the privacy of my heart 

I lament there was the need to part

Life becomes an odd contrast:

You are not here.  And yet you are.

I knew in time you would depart

And couldn’t but be overcast,

In the privacy of my heart.

But there’s always hope in ‘au revoir’,

That separation will not last.

You are not here.  

And yet you are,

Like the light from a distant star

That can be seen but not held fast,

In the privacy of my heart.

You are not here.  

And yet you are.

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© 2012   J Cosmo Newbery

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