Always available apparitions,

land nearby in fateful moments.

Their remember when’s leave

us sometimes lost in memory.

We want to but not anymore.

The time has passed and life

holds only what it may contain.

Shadows linger like a gasp that

drifts silent into the atmosphere

only to reveal itself as a memory.

Some we could rather forget

except upon their return we are

compelled to wish them away.

No redos allowed, not today,

this life’s plan is ahead of the

game, try to keep up now.

Its reveal tears apart our soul.