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The speaker reflects on their relationship with a deceased loved one, and how their relationship changed after the loved one passed away. The speaker reflects on how their relationship with the deceased loved one was "muttered" and "passed" without any stares or interactions. The speaker concludes that their relationship was "optimistic" and that the deceased loved one was "passed" in an "optimistic" way.
You meant more than life to me. I lived
through you not knowing, not knowing I
was living.
I learned that you called for me. I came to
where you were living, up a stair. There
was no one there.
No one to appreciate me. The legality of it
upset a chair. Many times to celebrate
we were called together and where
we had been there was nothing there,
nothing that is anywhere. We passed
obliquely,
leaving no stare. When the sun was done
muttering,
in an optimistic way, it was time to leave
that there.
-- from "The New Higher"
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