I look at our faces frozen in time,
There were flowers in my hair and a gleam in your eye.
We were smiling,
Busy enjoying the moment that is now long past.
If it weren’t for these blocks of frozen time,
I’d’ve forgotten your face or the reason we were smiling in the first place.
And it seems to me that even these won’t do,
Because I can’t remember your voice,
Or what you said when we left.
And now all I have are these substitutes
That can’t bring you back to me
Or stop me from moving farther away.
I thought they’d help me remember;
They only remind me what I’m going to forget.
Because the day will come when I won’t look at these pictures anymore,
And you won’t be anything more than a shadow in my past,
A shadow that I can’t see.
And although I cry for you now, my tears will fade too,
As will yours.
And we will both wither into each other’s minds
Until we are no more than squares of images
Of a moment in a time when I remembered you
And you remembered me.