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Max trembles,

He’s never seen the sky fall this way,

Not that he can remember.

He cries for comfort.

But mother’s missing

Lost somewhere in golden fields

Her mind wrapped in flashing lights

Fireflies craving one thing.

She can never get back.

Max waits,

Patient as a pine tree, listening,

Tripping on sounds edges.

He cries for love.

But mother’s missing

Stolen by doctors who took

Her down a linoleum hallway

Scented with years of dead flowers.

She can never get back.

Max sighs,

Closing his eyes to a door

Unopened for too long a time.

He cries for loss.

But mother’s missing,

Eyes are dried hollows.

Her body waits for some touch

Of time, but ran off and now,

She can never get back.