Compensations

[rowens]

I was only thirteen years old the first time I saw someone die,
I don't remember anything about the weather.
But I saw a movie where the wind blew,

and the dead returned at night.
And even though it was a horror movie,
I felt more reassured than scared.


There's a space there that needs to be filled.

and I don't remember anything about the weather.
But I saw a movie where the wind blew

Is missing something in space itself. It's the empty repetition that mars the poem and is what it's about, if anything.