1279: Not

When the best things to sayare the things which cannot be said,
I wonder..

why I miss
the choices I never made,
the days I never spent,
the lives I never lived,
the dreams I never dreamt,
the memories I never had,
the pains which I never endured.

It is not that Life seems meaningless without you,
Or the world any less grotesque
Or science any less profound or art uninspiring and religion any less hypocritical
Or literature less intricate and philosophy any less boring.
It is not that Life is nothing but the occasional burst of laughter
rising above the interminable wail of grief[1]

Maybe,
It is just that we never met,
as if we somehow lost an era we never had.

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1.  Dedication(2007)