1 Fleeting memories, flinging to the tip
3 unasked-for, but unanswering.
4 Close when I least expect to feel
5 the soft tickle of a long-forgotten future.
7 I try to grasp your silvery white branches,
8 but I am left with only crumpled leaves, shadows
9 failing to comfort me. Shadows
10 that make fools of my needs,
13 You are always running from me,
14 memory, making me flounder for purchase
15 and solace. But you force
16 my mind to fill your place,
18 lost for lack of a thought.
20 Lost memory, ever distant,
21 you keep me in my own present,
22 and not the misremembered