Presence

    You should know by now, if you

    take it for granted,reality

    has a habit of becoming unreal.

    What was your life disappears,

    leaves you without self

    to put a finger on. Reminding you

    everything which will ever happen 

    has already happened, only

    you were not there. As when

    you wander out, late

    into the night, find yourself 

    when you get back, deep 

    in the chair you haven't moved from.

        John Phillips