hope deferred

Pain cannot be avoided when something (someone) desired is lost. The conscious mind extracts muscle memories of the lost thing from each finger, hand, lip, and eyelid that grazed, held, and rested against the lost thing we miss (her). in Its immediacy, we are desperately aware of Absence, and anxiety & unrest increase when we cannot predict the end of absence. "Either fill the gap, or cease to be bothered by it!"