Sunday, June 23, 2024

A memory that is not a memory June 22, 2024

 

The most painful part

Is when a memory

Is not a memory,

But I wish it was,

What could have been

That never transpired,

The imagined touch

Of fingers on a walk

Along a long familiar street,

Sympathetic caress

On your hair or shoulder

When you come near

To tears, the stirring

Inside me, real,

But unrequited,

Not yet justified,

Yet undeniable,

Like the gravity

Inflicted by

Heavenly bodies,

We can acknowledge,

Resist, but cannot

Keep from colliding,

A memory of what

I wished for,

Yet could not achieve,

The ache unsatisfied

Except in the endless

Reruns of what I

Would do, could do, if

I could or would

But ultimately,

Can’t.


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