if ever i did love you
or even so much as laugh with you,
share a meal, or a moment in time,
i will hold space for you in my heart forever

i will hear that number on the radio and
visions will pass through my brain
interpolating into the melodies
capsules in time

and if you call i will surely answer
—be it twenty years after we part—
i will ask you about that time and
we will laugh again,
you will remind me of what i used to know

i will think of you, fondly,
always