• long forgotten photographs cluster the top of your armoire
    yellowing memories cracked and crinkled around the edges
    you plunge into this long untouched, dust-covered segment of your memory
    grubby fingertips grabbing at the edges, eager for answers
    reaching deeper and deeper
    mind reeling with sudden remembrance

    strangers smile daggers back at you
    red hot knives that rip holes in your heart
    how could such ignorance be achieved
    such disregard for a time once revered
    it is pitiful to even comprehend
    that these fast friends are so fast forgotten
    now burn with broken promises and missed chances

    i am ashamed that i could become so cold
    i am ashamed of who i have become
    lost are the old principles that bound me to the ground
    i sacrificed them to chance a life amongst the clouds
    only to open my eyes and find myself plummeting
    terminal velocity towards the approaching earth

    lost touch with old friends
    lost touch with old self
    moved away from who i was
    hoping for who i wanted to be
    but drifted towards who i am
    left with only pretty pictures to remind me
    of a gentler time, a simpler time

    the people look like flowers at last
    forever staring out from underneath the glass