Not us/a love poem

Intriguing -
My writing indicates
I loved you more
Than the emotions I’ve been assigning to memories of you.
(Not us, just you).

I thought
Since I have creative memories,
Reading the written history
Would spotlight the liberties I take.

But I’ve forgotten
So many things we did.
And instead of memories
Created thoughts of several abstract silent settings -

The real events were shockingly moving.

I should start imagining
Memories of today,
So the new batch
Becomes as poignant as those I lost -

Since
I have ‘now’ at the cost of ‘you’
I am sad.

If I missed ‘now’
Would I forget ‘you’
Altogether -

Posted by acr at November 1, 2003 07:07 PM | TrackBack