Today is your birthday
I could never forget it
it's engraved in my mind
like an epitaph on a tombstone
I just cannot forget it.
Neither can I forget
the phone number
you no longer use.
I used to recite it
as fast as my own.
Back when everything
was whole and shiny
no one knew it would one day
crack open and reveal what lay under
such a placid surface.
And like a tapestry unraveling
everything that we once were
fell apart.
Sometimes I wish that we could
learn how to weave it back together
that we could fire these shards
into something new in the kiln.
I doubt you remember my birthday
or favorite colour.
That you lay awake some nights
and wonder where I am.
Or what my life is like now.
Who I dream of
and where my heart wanders to.
