Dear, sorry to have missed you today.
Saddened so to have missed seeing you today.
Sorry, my dear, I yearned for our being together today.
Today I missed you being here. Why weren’t you?
Dear? Are you even sorry you missed our day?
Missed today! Sorry to have you dear.

Lynn Kozlowski’s writing has appeared in such places as 50-Word Stories, The Quarterly, The Malahat Review, Poetry Breakfast, and failbetter.com. He has a volume of short pieces, Historical Markers.