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Absence

by leocardo_reis

I am troubled, despite the fact I feel as though I am perched on a cloud. Does a flower announce its blooming? Likewise should I announce each happiness and sorrow? I am in such conflict about this. Part of poetry is to exaggerate through omission. Here, I can only show what I had felt, never tell. I wonder if I have adequately expressed, with the few words I have wrote, that all my poems are about the things I have purposefully omitted? Tonight, my heart is a torrent. I wish to use names, but I cannot. I wish to state my emotions, but I must not. Perhaps it is because I am not truly a poet, but all I can do is emphasize absence.
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Written by
leocardo_reis
M / Canada
Published
May 24, 2021
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