ABSENCE

How low do you have to go

before appreciating the high ?

A walk in the valleys,

under the watch of lofty peaks

Touching ground reality

before soaring on fantasy

How much of down is necessary

before you see the up ?

A crawl through darkness

or a sleepless night before light

Brushing back the grey

In your world of black and white

How uncanny that the negative

is necessary for the positive

To add value, to the sun that peeks

from behind dark clouds

The swerving troughs 

in a rollercoaster ride to the zenith

How true then that company

makes you miss solitude

But in its presence

It makes fonder, the absent

And in its absence, lies absent

the fondness of company

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