By Ali
Date: 2008 Mar 05
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constant gone

The thought of you
burns me, backwards--

and my heart stopped
in your arms, strangled.

It was a long-ago summer,
and there.  And back again.

Never leaving.  Always left.
Never there.  Always gone.

And I still flinch
at the thought of you.