Memories

A second as the water drops. A moment
in time when you realize how precious life
is. A wasted talent now gone eternally.
Mistakes were made and now you're an illusion,
a symbol of my fading memory.
I used to try and fight the huge temptation

to break down after you were gone. The temptation
to try and relive every single moment.
A symbol of my fading memory.
I remember how you were so full of life
before you were invisible to me. The illusion
that will stay inside my soul eternally.

The pain I felt inside me is eternally
imprinted on my heart. And past temptations
come alive, adding to the illusion
that everything is dying. The moment
when everything changed. We have only one life
to live. One chance to be in someone's memory.

My irrational fear is you will leave my memory
because I thought you would stay inside my mind eternally.
Regret runs through me as I hear of your hardened life,
so short and full of struggle, and I saw you to your temptations.
Fighting through a period of weakness, a single moment
of ethereal revelation. So long ago, it's but a mere illusion

a point in time when it shouldn't be an illusion.
The symbol of my fading memory
is always when I lose our precious moments.
The seconds, minutes, hours, days and years, eternally
resisting our own personal temptations.
And hardships that we go through in every life

shape who we are becoming today. My life
along with yours join together to form the illusion
that all was right and good in our past. Temptations
rise and fall throughout the world as memories
to stay alive inside each other eternally.
A second as the water drops, a moment

when the temptations of life are easily awoken.
The moments that you wish were just illusions,
the special memories that will last for eternity.