So easy to romanticize the past

But not so easy today

Not when the sun is gone

For good, this time

     And no parting remarks will suffice

Her words like medicine

"I love you"

Perhaps would prove a fatal dose

Or with each syllable heal me thrice

     If she could hold me close

"I'm leaving you and I can't tell you why

For now, I am afraid this is goodbye"

So I stare at the wake where she went

And I cannot remember her voice

     No matter how hard I try