How Can You?

How can you miss something you never had?

And yet the ache in my chest is at apogee

It’s so damn constant that now it’s a part of me

How can you miss something that you never had?

It’s as though I am a puzzle with a missing piece

Without whom my ship sails free of cleats

How can you miss something you never had?

And yet the amiss feeling is the only constant of my life

The only thing in my being that runs rife

How can you miss something you never had?

And yet it’s absence threatens my very identity

The unease surrounds me ubique

How can you miss something you never had?

The rampage in my blood runs wild

It’s indubitable thud resounding in my ears feels almost vile

How can you miss something you never had?

And yet be unable to pinpoint exactly what it is

Although it gradually nibbles away at me like myiasis.