Gifts (To All the Ones I’ve Left Behind)

You are in my heart, annoyingly-

a shadow,
a remnant,
a ghost I cannot truly grasp,
a crevice nothing else will fit inside.

So I write poetry,

to place like paper bandaids
all across my porous heart.

I’ve wrapped it up-
here, see,

for you.

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