Foreshadowing

Did you have a feeling it was coming

When you asked if I had a someone?

The hope ringing in your question,

The great disappointment in your sigh.

I wish I could’ve told you otherwise, but as of a week prior, it would’ve been a lie.

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Did you have a feeling similar

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To the urgency I’m feeling now?

Not one of the maternal biology, that clock isn’t ticking as loud

As the one of morbid curiosity.

Will the people I most love make it to my special day?

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With a resigned type of sound,

You said it’d happen soon. Soon,

As though you’d be there to see it,

But three days later you were gone.

— CKJ