my mind slipped by you
today
to say hello
and to see
how you were getting along
without me.
my heart still aches for you
in the smallest ways
and the simplest things
that didn't seem to matter then.
like the way you held my hand
and how you kissed my hair
these things are gone forever
in the stillness of the air.

I'm slowly getting by
it would have been easier
if I could only fly
and yet no matter
how I burn the memories
or how much
time and space slip by
I find myself thinking of you.
lightly and not constantly
a coincidence
of mind and heart
and I leave out the part
where you and I
collide.