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title: Opportunity Missed

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# Opportunity Missed
**by Francis Hicks**

Longing tugs,
want nudges,
loss fills in every crack.
Mist descends,
slowly obscures
the beauty of ocean
glittering in sun.
Suddenly sun,
always sun
above, behind, beneath
the veil.
I have seen the veil.
It parted in a breeze once,
but settled again,
never
to be moved again.
