Tom Simard

Poetry, Music, and Prose

29 Oct 2016

A Precarious Existence

A Precarious Existence
The absence
I feel
is similar in kind
to when
you left your family
behind
for the jungles
where you lived
a precarious
existence.

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Alastair Savage on October 30, 2016 at 4:13 am said:

Nice twist!

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- tomsimard on October 30, 2016 at 9:39 am said:
  
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