Remember Me

I'm speaking to you,

Do you hear me?

Have you ever?

Or am I just the ghost,

Reminiscent and left over from an old life,

Where we were happy,

Do you hear me?

When I scream at night,

Do you hear me?

Or does it come as the vapor of

a sound?

Just enough to stir you from sleep,

& then do you look around,  

As if something might be missing?

What was it though?

A half-lucid thought,

No real importance to it,

You shrug it off & succumb

to the cold, deep ocean of sleep,

Dreaming of everything you love,

But I loved you,

Am I in your dreams?

Will I ever be? 

Was I ever?

I want to know that you have not forgotten me,

That I still linger like a memory,

Deep in the back of your brain,

Someday, when you least expect it,

A smile, a song, an object,

Will rip me to the forefront of your head,

& you will smile & remember me,

Who I was,

& that I loved you