Exorcism of an Unforgetting Heart

Flashes...
Memories...
Your laughter
That smells
Of wet earth
And dreams
With an acrid tinge
Of hopes gone by


I have never missed you,
Never got the chance
But I wish I did


You're a jigsaw puzzle
And I hold every piece;
Only the grooves have changed
They fit no more.
The line have faded,
The colours run into each other
A grotesque image
Of the face before.


We sit together
We reminisce
We have no new
Memories to make.
Time has washed you away
In all your fluid grace
While I sit
On the clumsy boulder
Of a wistful life;
Babbling
To the bits of you
I have clung on to
Like a parasite.


Blow away in the wind;
Be gone.
Your eyes
They are still the same hazel
But they have forgotten to smile
When they see me
Be gone
So that I too can forget
that treacherous smile