[Header Photo by Tim D on Unsplash]

when you returned
did you recognize me?

i am the same me
72 hours later

i am a completely new me
63 years and counting

counting on you
counting on you and me

there are never enough fingers
you always gone far too long

when you return again
i will be the same me

a completely new me
always counting on you

minutes hours and days heavy
as the water at the bottom of a memory

—P.L. Thomas