Some memories:
shoot through you like a lightning bolt
leaving your veins full of apple blossoms
your skin electrified with memories of kisses
your eyes a movie projector
playing thoughts, words, music
Some memories:
are so dense that you can’t breath
so compact that you can’t move
Some memories:
leave you in the forest
with no compass
no ability to find north or south or east or west
Some memories:
leave you orbiting the planet
a satellite floating alone
so very far away
no contact, no feelings
Some memories:
are the departing gift that keeps giving
a gift that has you smile in a crowd
lost in your own happiness
oblivious to the world around
Some memories:
are not so lovely
trapped in that last breath
hoping he would inhale one more time
so you could rest your lips on his
and take him in
to let him continue to live inside you
two as one
if only you could
Some memories:
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