Yes, I remember you!
Walking away without a sound
While on the other side of the galaxy
A star ten times larger than our sun
Imploded and vanished forever

Yes, I remember you!
And my feeling the chill
Of that prophetic death
Arrows poisoned by shards of ice
Freezing my soul

Yes, I remember you!
And  a heart that broke
With no one to hear it
Echoing endlessly between
The edges of forlorn galaxies;

Beating like an unrepentant
Sinner’s soul against the walls
Of Purgatory so that it might yet
Be blessed with one last glimpse
Of leftover heaven

Yes, I remember you
Disappearing like snowflakes
Swallowed by a pool of lukewarm water
 
Yes, I remember you
Vanishing like the sun 
swallowed by angry thunderclouds
Between strikes of lightning

Yes, I remember you!
And the silence you wrapped yourself in
To protect you from us

Yes, I remember you!
And the three months
Of my undoing
That followed in the waste
Of your leaving 

Yes, I remember you!
Like land remembers a tsunami 
Like a soldier remembers war
Like a mother remembers a child
Taken from her against her will

Yes, I remember you!