so sure my soul
recalls your breath
tho how and when –
I shudder
forgotten here
where circumstance remains

when pulled into
your memory –
as light within
your light –
as vapor unremembered
by the flame

of moments held
so fragile
I dare not speak aloud
of where
the wonder slept –
between us
now

as strangers
to believing –
of another place we came
familiar once
as golden still
the sun

. . .