"You Were Gone" by Nikki Giovanni

Have you ever had something on your mind, and you just didn't know why? Well, like I stated in an earlier post, I love to hear Nikki Giovanni read her poetry, and one of the poems that I like to hear her read is "You Were Gone." For the last two or three weeks, the words "You Were Gone" have been on my mind. So, here is the poem:

You Were Gone

by

Nikki Giovanni

You were gone

like a fly lighting

on that wall

with a spider in the corner

You were gone

like last  week’s paycheck

for this week’s bills

You were gone

like the years between

twenty-five and thirty

as if somehow

You never existed

and if it wouldn’t be

for the gray hairs

I’d never know that

You had come.

Happy Friday!