Change of... Address
(In memory of my mother Ita)
You didn't die
you just changed shape
became invisible
to the naked eye
became this grief
it's sharpness
more real
than your presence was
before you were separate to me
entire to yourself
now you are
a part of me
you are inside my self
I call you
by your new name
'Grief...Grief! '
although I still call you
'Love.'
Dónall Dempsey
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