I watched as you faded away.

Absence

In semiotics, a term is absent from a meaningful sequence of signs if it could potentially occupy a position in the sequence, and if its exclusion affects the meaning of the signs which are present.

Semiotics. Acrylic on newspaper

So come and sit on my box

Pride is hard to swallow

PRESENT ABSENCE

the beautiful things have disappeared, the public did not want to keep them.