Before and after
A moment in time
Inexorably
Changed everything, changed --
That invisible
Shift-snap-break, crumbled --
Betrayed my order
The curve so gentle
Weighted gradients
Invariably
Imposed on the graph
Of points that were you
There in front of me
Then gone from my view…
Sweet before, rich
Recollections banked
Incontiguous
Yet felt close as whole
Within softest realm
Saved indelibly
Now static and passed.
Now, while new now comes,
All after, marching
Unrelentingly
How ephemeral
We are you and me
Begging persistence
Of this present held.
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