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inconsolable
it’s non negotiable
but everyone wants
to challenge grief
nobody knows and
yet we all pontificate
over a pain panic
pandemic where the
world has ended the
light is no more there
is no familiarity in
this abandonment no
lifebelt it is the no
thingness of it with
fast dying embers of
the physical furnace
the flames still lick
silently invisibly
intoxicatingly irretrievably
ineffably you will always
be here and yet never
again the public fact and
the interior truth two
are one in flesh but
also inextricably for
an everness no one else
can ever understand why
do I have to be consolable
consoled when the pain
is excruciatingly eternal
in the now and the
prospect alone and to
gether in an impossible
unity – help!
© Neil Thompson 2026