Today's challenge was to write a poem questioning a proverb.
Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder (or Forget?)
Absence makes the heart grow
flabbier; fattens its forgetting,
a muscle that strains to remember
catalogued moments of love.
Absence thickens its petal walls
until it is more stone than flower,
quiets its chambers of music
carves hollows into its veins
until it is an effigy of lack:
memories spilled like marbles,
a velvet purse emptied
of its ruby jewels.
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