Because you are never here but always there, I forget not you but what you look like You drift down the street in the rain, your face dissolving, ch… - Margaret Atwood

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Because you are never here
but always there, I forget
not you but what you look like

You drift down the street
in the rain, your face
dissolving, changing shape, the colours
running together

My walls absorb
you, breathe you forth
again, you resume
yourself, I do not recognize you

You rest on the bed
watching me watching
you, we will never know
each other any better
than we do now