I woke up this morning and immediately thought of you
Your soft hair lying
a mess against your tanned skin
Your freckles splattered in an
array across the arch of your nose
The shade of pink
your cheeks turn in the cold
of the winter
And the smoothness of your
voice ringing in my ears
And then I realized
it's been a year today
A year since you left me alone
It gets harder as the days go on
Sometimes I don't remember it all
The way you smelled
when you came home from work
A delicate mix
of lilacs and book pages
Sometimes I don't recall
The way it felt to lie in your arms
Sometimes
I find myself wearing your sweaters
Flipping through your journals
Until I find the page
Where you told me you loved me
But you couldn't any longer
Today
Today I try to forget
~ a.b. ~
