The Inertia of Phantom Power

When people love each other for so long. and they break away, there is always part of what they were left behind in each of them. This is a remainder of what they made...it has the power to hurt, to heal, and sometimes, pull those people together again. It is nothing you can see, but only felt. It is not a touch, but it is touching. It will reach into you and pull apart everything you've ever felt, and serve it up to you as raw as it was the day you felt it. The inertia of phantom power drives poetry, and it is the reason I still write.

Thomas Black

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