Memories

I wrote this maybe ten minutes ago. There ARE spaces between people, and what fills those spaces tends to be more painful than the people themselves.

Things go unspoken in the spaces between

All those things we said

The hurtful things we didn't mean

The things I hope you did

I'm holding our memories close

Before they disappear

Because I know my memory goes

Year and again year

So I'll be content with an occasional smile

Maybe I'll conjure a laugh

Because I know that after a while

The years will go too fast

We won't catch on

If we don't keep it close

And those memories- gone

Before anyone knows

And maybe I'll remember

An idea, a lost dream

And maybe you'll remember

Just what you meant to me

But the chances are pretty low

And I don't expect to hope too much

So I'll let my secret hopes go

And hope you don't expect too much

But I guess it's all okay

Just hope I don't break before the end

Before night becomes the day

And lose the dream of what

We

Once

Had

Been