A Story of No One

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​a few more rotations around the sun 

sun up to sun down

i’ve forgotten the way your voice sounds 

i see the flash of a film reel

i dare not stare

but my mind sometimes does wander there


i’m growing older and i now remember 

how close we really were together 

i’d not change what is

but i visit the shore somedays

while the waves cast upon and away


i know more time has passed

than the time i knew you

i still tell your jokes to new people 

who don’t know they came from you


so yes i’ve forgotten 

but my body still remembers

i trace the scar you gave me

it’s faded, but it’s there


i guess i’ve healed 

i’m not who i was

who are you now?

i’ll never know

but my mind does wander there


no one in my life even knows that story

or about you

but i remember

and you live on in me

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