The feeling in my stomach
is hard
to describe.
The only words that come to mind
are
space, emptiness,
as if there is a missing
piece
of the puzzle
within me
waiting for
that thing that fills the list gap.
Or perhaps it's not a space
but a dam
lining a reservoir,
filled to the brim with untapped
love, desire, and unsaid words.
The clocks stopped counting down
long ago,
everyone has left and moved on
but the dam remains,
waiting...
waiting...
for the right time,
the right place
to fill with my swell of love,
my rivers of desire,
my ocean of me.
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