Remember

do you remember? 

fingers of sunlight, 

as they were caressing your face? 



do you remember? 

the leaves dancing in the sky 

then falling softly to their painless death 



the picture is there, 

as clear as the glass within their eyes 

as innocent as the song of mourning birds 

birds who cry if only to live for but just one more day 

to be like us their angelic faces bereave 



and they are always asking me 

why must we forgive... 

if only to forgive, if never to forget... 

read these words that are engraved upon my face 

and then look away... look away...look away