Remembrance

Remember me

Walk silently through my doors and reminisce with me

We once glowed brightly under the midnight sky, you and I

We sat on benches and our mouths kept time with our hearts

Words flowing from ear canal, to heart, to mind and out through the nose.

We drowned in a mess of freshman philosophy and sickly sweet high school romance poetry

Mixing the liquids of our fear and joy we let it fluoresce in the space above our heads

We stood against the light to cast shadows upwards; we carved the sky into shapes and figures more beautiful than ourselves.

At the edge of morning you handed me one last secret

Standing on my toes I hid it behind the sun because you couldn't reach

 

I lost you in a field one evening because the cows and snails wouldn't tell me where you went

The moon turned to reflect not the sun, but a thousand street-lights into the tall grass so I could find you

At the edge of the water I caught you dancing, and found your hand in mid-sway

we fell over the side and sat where we could see our reflection

you asked me about death, and I told you a lie

In my memory there was firefly music and violin light

and you cast a spell to slow down time

We greeted the dew half in dreams and blushing

and couldn't find our way home till it was too late.

 

When it came time to forget you showed me how,

 twist grab pull and it was done

You gave me a bottle of words

and a notebook with our minutes pressed delicately between the pages

 

At the end it read

"We once glowed brightly under the midnight sky, you and I. We will grow eyes and ears like branches reaching out from our chests till we can see the rest of this story carved out in giant silver cursive across time and space."

 

My finger finds the edge of the page and stops there, a chubby semi-colon..

The blood drains from my nail-beds as I rest my head on the crook of my elbow

to remember your face, and finally sleep softly.