IDOL week 3. Topic: Intaglio

[adoptedwriter]

 Intaglio

 

“She lives with us in memory and will forever.”

 

There’s just one problem.

I don’t remember her.

I never will.

Visiting the grave.

I can’t cry for her.

I stare at the stone.

Emptiness.

 

It happened to other people.

It was real-not-real.

She did and did not exist.

She knew me but she didn’t know me.

I knew her but I never knew her.

Mythical and magical

Silence

 

Is she really down in there?

Where did she actually go?

Summer sun and freshly mown grass;

This is her scent. 

She has a birth date and an end of life date. 

She was loved and is missed by many.

Including me.

 

“She lives with us in memory and will forever.”

 

But I can’t remember her.