People Vanish

You

and perhaps I

Know that people

do disappear

vanish into slender air

engulfed by issues social

in circumstances intensely human

swallowed up whole

individuals, couples, groups

hastily leave the scene

everyday

enmeshed, embroiled

in meshes ever so intricate

we weave threads

we knit our lives

in networks

and craftily laces

our schemes

with various toxins

and traps