My heart aches for names lost
Deeply etched in stone
For even rock fades with age
Deep grooves mere whispers
The wind's brushing kiss
A reminder and forgetting
I carve my memories in ink
In stone
In bytes
In blood
All corroding
All ephemeral
The gentlest of kisses
The weight of an eyelash
The strength of my heart
My soul
Barely disturb the river
Time's surface unrippled
I drop my pebbles in the path
And remember
In the universe, I am a speck
A blip within a blip
I will one day be forgotten
My heart aches for lives lost
Etched in stone
In hands
In lips
I kiss the hands
The heart
The lips
And etch love where I can
For with time, everything fades
And I don't need to matter then
Only now












