A death somewhere
Some moments of shared grief
For today’s events, regrets elsewhere
For the dead, is death an unexpected relief?
For the living, a discontinuity over explained?
A person now a collection of memories, fraying yet sustained
In our collective conscious, revived and forgotten; rippled and dappled
Underneath a missing person in a human labyrinth
Unacknowledged unspoken fear of loss
A loss is a loss, timely or untimely
Let it go in this downpour
The weight of the past hour
Riding atop the hill of cumulative angst
Carefully built carelessly crystallised molehill
Watch the rain dissolve it away, wash it to a puddle
The real and the imagined real, the inevitable
The late summer flowers, the dried leaves and the green leaves
The dust and the trash, the highs of the thermometer
The rain a discontinuity in this hot weather
A city is charming again, fear washed by belief
Somewhere sleep brings a temporary relief.
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Ephemeral Memories 