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There's a certain kind of sadness


There’s a certain kind of sadness,

 

Sadness that floats in the absence of matter

 

The distance between your last layer of skin to mine

 

Screams desperately to conflate and stop time.

 

The space between the raptures marks the essence

 

of what had caused the blocking of our breath

 

dragging us to perilously experience it again

 

(although the absence will repeatedly emerge)

 

That certain kind of sadness,

 

The sadness sailing within meager distance

 

Between one enactment and the other

 

That certain kind of sadness

 

Longing our transient felicity

 

Is as inevitable as the depth in which your voice sounds

 

And the satisfaction of our feet in the same ground.

 

Yet I look back and grasp that sadness is too motley to define

 

This certain kind of sadness does not endure through a pure absence of our ease

 

But in thought that in an instant, despite how endless it feels

 

there’s a certain kind of sadness that always will appear.

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