Poetry list
presence absence
so near so real
but so differently
present when
absent all the
points of perception
are challenged
and changed reality
is never chosen nor
an option only a
mystery it is time
that brings and
takes delivers and
corrupts it does so
relentlessly and
renders our powers
and controls useless
its stream is really
a torrent whose
cataract catches each
one of us as we
hurtle in a momentum
that cascades and
casts us where we
truly belong and where
we have always
been and never been
but will ever be
yet I withdraw so
readily into the
delusory consolation
of the present when it
is the absent that
is the eternal present
© Neil Thompson 2023