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Recital, without you? Can I say no? I don't wanna go.

I'm taking your place, for now. Woodpecker.
I'll stand where you stood. I do what you did. And I'll think of you. I'll miss you like hell.

You'll come back. You're just gone for awhile. Right?
Maybe next year. Maybe next next year.
I'll wait. Until that one day, I'll be at the seats. And you'll be holding camera again, smiling over there. Making faces. Mouthing me words. Texting from a short distance. And I'll run towards you. And I'll sit with you with your arms around me.

You'll come back.

It's just temporarily without you.
Patience.

Cuz he's worth it.