What is the last thing you forgot?
The last thing I forgot
Is how I learned that
This world is too cold
To walk alone
The last thing I forgot
I forgot how warmth feels like
And sweetness tastes like
When a lover's tongue touch
The corner of my lips
We must have talked about
Loss
The thing we intimately knew
The last thing I forgot
She with her long hair
And dark eyes
Soft eyelashes like butterflies
Flapping their wings onto my cheek
She with the button nose
That easily gets red in the cold
Her bare shoulders flow like
The river I used to swim
When I was a child
The last thing I forgot
I forgot the way my lips were attuned
To say her name
Or the way that sound echoes in my ears
That brings all the butterflies to my stomach
I forgot how I used to miss her
And cry
When the silence has become unbearable
The last thing I forgot
I forgot us
Her
And I
She
And
Me
I forgot how cold it is
To walk alone
With all the forgetting
In your steps
L.
