You Lost It; You Can’t Take It Back

Disappearances are, of all additions,
The trickiest to accept as such,
Which only stands to reason, given

They seem opposite to addition.
But they’re adamant. Disappearance
Is a fact the past never hands back.

It hangs on to it. So-and-so’s gone.
Someday the cat may come back but not
The fact of the day it went missing.

Presence, ontology’s confusing
In terms of what’s disappeared. Changes
Are permanently happened. In that

Sense, you can never ask for them back.
They’re there. They won’t go away. What’s gone,
Or at least the going, always went.