The Trick Is...

What are you missing?

What isn’t there?

There’s a space for

something, but nothing’s there.

Who’s really whole?

Not missing that piece?

Full of themselves,

yet incomplete.

Is it in a song?

Is it in a poem?

A lover’s longing look

as you stare into each other.

In the mirror?

In the thoughts of others?

A reflection of the self

with jigsaw spaces.

What’ll fill that hole?

The gulf of absence?

A hand held close to the

heart and a kiss on the cheek.

Is that enough?

Is that all you need?

Some need more,

some need less.

But most of the time,

it’ll do the trick.