Still Present

Still Present

Jennifer Pickup 05.04.2023

They say that time will heal the loss,

What they don’t tell you is the cost –

How memories will start to fade,

How the past becomes cast in shade.

Sometimes I can’t recall your face…

I search in each familiar place,

Your voice I used to know so well

But what it sounds like I can’t tell.

Have I blocked out my thoughts of you?

Has grief told lies about what’s true?

My heart turned dark and shrivelled up?

My mind played tricks and run amuck?

Still present – that’s where you should be,

Still living in my memory,

But time has taken heed and now

I’ve lost a piece of me somehow.