Loss has verbs in its pockets.
X was
and now isn’t.
Y notices
that X was and now isn’t.
X was here, now X is gone.
Loss is sly ownership.
Absence rings, tapped crystal.
Loss sings the rim.
X lost Y, X feels lost.
Loss has no appetite.
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