Amnesia

I thought I saw you in the distance the other day, but as the person turned, I knew I had only forgotten.

How can it be that I see you everywhere?

Sometimes I see your face in dreams. Beside a train, one of us is coming or is it going?

You smile, your mysterious smile and there is a happy contentment in your eyes that I don't remember, somehow.

When I am excited and have news to share, I pick up the phone to

call and remember with pain, you are not there.

The pace of life moves on, but there are no more memories to be

made with you.

Oh my friend gone too soon, I have only amnesia to help relieve

the pain of this emptiness in my life your dying has left behind,

like traces of rain on a window pane.

Dedicated to my three amigos gone too soon, Betty, Mary and Theresa.