appealing

The Maynard
Spring 2015

Fraser Sutherland

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In love or lust, friendship or obsession
no one depresses me the way you do.

Many are talented at it but no one excels so consistently.
Some make a mess or make misunderstandings,
but they lack the ability
to depress me the way you do.

Some have given me joy, more or less,
but in specialized unhappiness
no one depresses me the way you do.

What is within me holds the absence I express.
I don’t know if I’m one or two, a cause or a result
in this displaced place of certainty and guess
where no one depresses me the way you do.

You turn away, you are unseen, then come into view.
No one depresses me the way you do.