memorial

i remember

i remember you
your many faces
you faces of bliss and sorrow
your faces of longing, dread
ripping laughter
unimaginable grief

i remember you
baby drooling love
caressing
swinging rope
love
high into the trees
i remember you
in your pea green boat
holding you sword
aloft
i have the power
you shout
i remember you singing bubble
bathtub memory

i remember you
knowing i had fled
into the darkness of
my dissapointment

i remember you
dancing singing
clownhat volare'

i remember you weeping
basement hardship
money failing
hardship

i remember smiling
love
from your last bed
i remeber you
my cheek kissed
closing my door
gone

i remember you
your lips
your arms
your sighing
your must
your soft

i remeber you
in corners
in forbidden resteraunts
and bars
in
hidden motels
in
the heart of my traffic

i remeber you
loving me
your hair

i remeber you
strong
confident
shipping out to terrible
war
my brother

i remember you
whiskey driven
hero

i remember you
all of you
all

you have passed though my life
like memories
like now

i remember now
how thankful
to have
touched you
to have
heard your voices
to have shared
fought
loved
sought
craved
and
known you

the you of my life
your music
your song
i remember
i do
i remember
and
i am grateful