Lost Connection
Your memories fill the gaps in my mind
photographs that forge a reconnection
A comfort for the child you left behind.
The albums within which you are enshrined
Make trades with blanks for consolation
These memories fill the gaps in my mind.
Birthdays and weddings trapped in time
Frozen laughter and lost conversations
Raise questions for the child you left behind.
These recorded moments are not mine
I cannot trust my own interpretation
False memories fill the gaps in my mind.
The pieces I append are misaligned
Pages of imagined recollections
Scant comfort for the child you left behind.
Your image only serves to remind
me of how Time increases separation.
False memories fill the gaps in my mind
No comfort for the child you left behind.
