I've been seven years without you now,
so my body must be completely new;
every cell has shed and been replaced.
And yet, every day that passes,
I feel your absence from my life.

Sometimes you take me unaware,
in a word, a look, a song,
and I smile, then sigh.
At times when I am in the midst of living
you touch me . . . you constrict my heart.
One shuddering sob escapes and
I am momentarily abandoned and forlorn.

This is the cost of our loving.
Two souls so wholly wed
That though you are no longer here,
You are alive in me . . .
in my memory,
my ache,
and my regret.

© Jan Luckingham Fable
December 8, 1996

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JanFable has worked as a psychotherapist for more than 25 years. She has a master's degree in counseling and is a Connecticut licensed drug and alcohol counselor. Her primary training is in Bioenergetic Analysis which deals with the whole person. She has extensive training in the treatment of dissociative disorders and trauma survivors and in using of altered states of consciousness in healing. She has also completed Level I and Level II training in Thought Field Therapy.

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