Driving down the roads of my past

I see your ghost everywhere

The halls where I met you

The neighborhood where you lived where we first kissed

The theater where we saw that awful movie on our first date

Years have passed

The place we both once called home is nearly unrecognizable now

So much has changed but the memories of you and me are still 

Alive in the footprints of buildings and businesses long gone

Bringing a bittersweet smile to my face as I see muted-color memories

Of what we were and what we never became

We live different lives in different worlds

Practically strangers though still linked inextricably and inexplicably

By threads of fate we never were able to understand

But could only accept without question or comment

Permanent tattoos upon each other's hearts

Placed there by a power who knew that we needed each other once

And who seems to know that we need the memories of that connection as they were yesterday

I hope you see my ghost, too

She's waiting with a hug that has only ever been for you

And may our ghosts continue to share what we no longer do

In a time and place that no longer is

Except in faded photographs and our souls

-gws