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[kaijubaka]

Death has not diminished your presence.
I think of you more now than I did before.
Every room is full to bursting with your absence.
Every thought arrives in your voice.

A newborn baby
Sleeping in my sister's arms
Seems to speak your name.

If you were a ghost, I could forget you again;
If you lingered, I could move on.

I saved your picture
In my phone for the first time
After you were gone.

I hear you on every distant laugh,
See you in every half-obscured face.
You are not gone. You fill every corner of my life
That I thought was empty; wherever I had space,
There you are.

On the lake's surface
The soft ripples draw your face.
The wind laughs for you.