Lifetime memories

@Uootem

memories echo... in our conversation today
                    just passing acquaintances... but so much more
                                        all the existing voices quieted... by sounds of the past
              one lost love standing next...
voices remembered, reassuring.

my mind is lost to dreaming... but my body still here.
                            foreign timing once more... what should I say?
                                                              memories glorified... or avoided,
                and words still hesitated... wanting to say more
                                        so much more... but still screaming silently.
        remembering the last time I touched you...
                            mind to body... boy and girl... all grown now
      grown apart... such distance hurts deep
remembering over and over and over...
                the poet's strength quivered... then paused.
                                                              is this what happens to strangers?
                              walking blindly, still not moving...
                              everything motionless... but thoughts of long ago
            rapidly time changes into pointless seconds
                                    of disbelief and pain... navigating silence and regrets.
in the spirit's torment...
                  parched lips thirst for lifetime memories.