When we walked

Down Memory Lane

We travelled back in time…

We relived in our minds

Those moments

That we had left behind.

 

Memories fill you up…

The present, vis-à-vis

Stands before you

As an emptiness

Your time was shared

And in that sharing love grew…

 

But remembering

Is a solitary thing…

Your ‘now’ challenges

Who you claim to be

It reminds you about

All that you’ve lost to time…

 

Your temporariness

Is hard to deal with

The weight of the present

Displaces your past…

You’ve left behind all

That promised to belong to you.

 

Yet you continue

To hold on to-

The sounds, the smells, the voices,

The laughter, the events, the sentiment…

All that was; none that is

Except in the echoes down Memory Lane.

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