Love Poem: I Didn'T Hear You Leave
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Written by: Helen J Radford

I Didn'T Hear You Leave

I didn't hear you leave. 
Where have you gone to? 
No door slam, no angry words, 
just a midnight flee to freedom. 

I didn't hear you leave. 
Did you tell me you were going? 
Did I miss it in the mayhem 
of life's confusion? 

You were with me on the same 
path - where did it split? 
Was I so preoccupied I didn't 
notice you take a different route? 

You're gone now. 
Silence and emptiness 
resound in the room. 
Empty coat hangers of finality 

clatter in the void of 
what was, then, before 
we separated, whenever it was 
the separation began. 

I didn't hear you leave. 
You went so quietly. 
No forwarding address, 
just emptiness - 

Where did you go?