I reached out and caught your memory
as it floated by my window today,
drifting on a current of yesterdays.
Briefly I held it cupped in my hands
as I breathed the scent of you,
took from your hands
the bittersweet fruit of past regrets,
of things unsaid and mistakes made,
of all our might-have-beens.
Sadly I released you again,
watched you fly free
into the mists of long ago.