By Charles Albano  CharlesAlbano@webtv.net
Date: 8 June 1998

WHEN YOU LEAVE

When you leave,
the sun retreats behind the clouds,
shadows cover missing smiles,
and the air runs cold
through quivering leaves
of forlorn trees--
the world seems strange to me
and I feel unwanted in it.



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