Fading Reality

I try to recall

the last time

I saw you

but the memory is faint

 

It used to be so easy

to imagine your face,

to envision your body

Yes, it was so clear

 

Something has changed

not in you, but in me

Your features fail

Your shape disappears

 

Driven by fantasy

I recreate you

into what I think

you should be

 

I know it's not real

A trick of the mind

My tears well up

You're simply not there

 

I long to see you again

If only to fuel

What can only be

A dream.