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the day you left


the day you left 

the world still spun

precisely poised in orbit

and time.

no meteor shower or catastrophic event

molested the cosmic drab.

the day you left

we didn't make the headlines. 

main street blistered and perked 

with predictable insanity.

and I ached, stranded in that instant 

knowing I would never breathe again.

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