i cannot bring
the past and now together;
i cannot sort out
where i end in you

although you’re gone,
i do not think you lightly;
you passed beyond
simplicity of view

i try to feel
my way along your passage;
i try to feel
the way you’d have me go

but in the slips
and slippages of mem’ry,
i just eek on
it is all that
i know