Powerless

This missing you,
it comes and goes in waves. 

So long life goes uninterrupted,
and then a moment,
a glimmer, a peek,

and you flood my chest;
I cannot breathe, I cannot see,
you overcrowd me. 
Whatever was close
is beyond the barrier of
warmth beneath my skin. 
Was it ever within touch?
I don’t remember;
days are lost in your passing

until a sliver of sanity
sinks into the flesh of a finger,

and I know, to save myself,
I must forget.

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