Are you missing me – spoken poetry (January 2025)

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I forgot to think about you today,
and I felt it
with every fibre of my being,
like the absence of breath
in a quiet room,
like a song stilled mid-note,
or a sunless morning
trying to find its way to light.

Are you missing me
and the hugs my words gave you,
the ones you never asked for
but always knew how to keep,
folded in the quiet corners
of your guarded heart?

It wasn’t intentional,
this forgetting of you,
but the silence it left
echoed louder than words,
carving spaces in my mind
where your name
used to linger.

Did you ever wonder
how I could craft warmth from distance
or weave tenderness into longing
without ever touching
the fragile parts of you
you tried so hard to hide?

My heart noticed before I did,
beating slower,
like it missed a step
in a dance we always knew,
one we never rehearsed
but moved through
effortlessly, endlessly.

Are you missing me
or is it the comfort of knowing
someone could see you,
not everywhere but somewhere,
and still stay?

I forgot to think about you today,
and the forgetting became
its own kind of remembering.
Even in absence,
you were everywhere.