#lacuna — Public Fediverse posts

he calls it love
but nothing adheres

I keep placing my hand there
as if warmth could take

as if the word might remember
what it was meant to hold

but it does not resist me
does not receive me

just an absence
shaped like a promise

and I—hesitant—
begin to learn its edges

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