Strewn across the lawn like dead leaves and dirty paper scraps
My memories of you seem more scattered now than ever
They have eroded away,
all the sharpness gone like old buildings with rounded edges

All the missing cobblestones are making for a bumpy ride down memory lane
And your eye color has gone all blurry
I think you smell one way when you wake in the mornings, but I can’t be quite sure.

Everything is faded, gone
Going,
Like looking at you through an old photograph, sun-drenched and stained,
and your still smiling face can’t see me and
you can’t hear that I’m sorry for the way it all turned out.
I couldn’t have known
we both wanted it to last forever
we didn’t realize then that forever lasts for a very, very long time.

You are fading so fast that I’m beginning to wonder if there will be anything left of you when these cold winds stop blowing.

02/02/2011

Author's Note: Winter and this neverending wind are making me dreary. I need sunlight.

Posted on 02/02/2011
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