1 Mystery Necessarily Forsaken
3 Fleeting memories, flinging to the tip
5 unasked-for, and unanswering.
6 Close when I least expect to feel
7 the soft tickle of a long-forgotten future,
10 I try to grasp your silvery white branches,
11 but I am left with only crumpled leaves, shadows
12 failing to comfort me. Shadows
13 that make fools of my needs,
14 ever tempting, never fulfilling.
16 You are always running from me,
17 memory, making me flounder for purchase
18 and solace. But you force
19 my mind to fill your place,
21 lost for lack of a thought.
23 Lost memory, ever distant,
24 you keep me in my own present,
25 and not the misremembered