Yes he has departed this place some
Twenty years ago without saying
As single word of goodbye and I do
Not understand what happened he
Usually sits on this chair next to the
Chair that I am sitting on twenty
Years and perhaps even before that
Because I had just discovered this
When what I said echoed back to me
I do not understand what has happened
I have remained silent for twenty years
Now everything else remained normal
Activities normal, the woman said; but
I remain sitting on this chair next to the
Chair that she is sitting on for however
Long I no longer remember perhaps
Over twenty years only I don’t hear
Her anymore although I know that
She still speaks because I see her lips
Moving just flapping up and down
But there is absolutely no sound, and
I am still sitting here and perhaps she
Doesn’t see me anymore just as I could
No longer hear her voice if she speaks
But I have been sitting here for
Twenty years let’s just assume that’s so
But because time has curled up so we feel
Like it’s just yesterday, everything else
Is normal, activities normal, the man
Said; and the story continues as such
The woman doesn’t see the man and
The man doesn’t hear the woman
Although they are both sitting there
On the chairs next to each other
Like two shadows next to each other
And it has been some twenty years
Everything else is normal, activities
Normal twenty years has come to past,
But because time has curled up so we feel
Like it’s just yesterday.