Senior School Days

There’s an ache in the core. Why
Do people call ache absence?
It’s not a hollow nothing.

It’s what’s there calling madly,
Call you receive somewhere else
In another filled-up space

Like your skull. So your core aches
In your skull and you can’t not
Attend to the ache’s presence,

Insistence anything but
Absence. There’s an ache at core,
And tomorrow there’ll be more

And you realize that the end
Is something you have to grow,
Something you have to learn.