On days of reminiscence

How long ago was it that you last died?

You can’t even remember her funeral

White lillies had held the casket

Your god had held his own hand

Meanwhile gravestones line up in our backyards

Mellow rows in all regards

Every one engraved only with our names

Saying nothing of the way it maims

 

But we’d be lesser selves without the passings

They make for grand stories of existence

Anyways life has a habit of returning to you

All it asks in return is that you wave to old selves

To those versions of you in the garden

 

Do you remember now?

The shadows that hold your hand

Do you feel it now?

The debris that makes for your pedestal

 

I know the past is in the past

But so am I.