I lost you

I lost you –

I don’t know

how it happened

or when it happened

walking along life’s road

somewhere, you slipped past

me, disappeared in the distance

I find myself left with only memories:

your face, the feel of your hands, your

scent that even now lingers around me

elusive, the memories, like water sliding

against water; elusive, these memories, like

pictures floating by in a storm, half submerged

and all I can feel now is the weight of responsibility

for losing you; how did I manage it – like you were an

earring, keys, something – when you were everything?

I lost you.