old reflections

just something that I wrote awhile ago, but I can still relate to....

June 19, 2008

I have to remember to savor these smells, these touches, these small utterances of your voice… so that when they aren’t around, they are not hard for me to remember.

I was beginning to forget; beginning to forget how to remember – the smell can only last for so long. Yes, memories last longer, but you’ve gotta make those first before you can remember, longing and remembering are different…too much longing not enough remembering….

Traffic traps me in my thoughts… thinking about nothing, everything, you