Eve of a Cold Moon

So briefly, so briefly –
a few days of awareness, then
you were gone. Still, there’s a space
for you that no other ever filled,
the abandoned home of a whisper-life
not ready for a world such as this.

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Prompt via NaPoWriMo.net: Write a nocturne. In music, a nocturne is a composition meant to be played at night, usually for piano, and with a tender and melancholy sort of sound. Your nocturne should aim to translate this sensibility into poetic form.