No Longer

There is more than one way to disappear-

to become memories in the wind

considered in passing and

brought back through fleeting

often arbitrary connections

like a house once home or

food you once favoured

this metamorphosis is catalysed

perhaps by time

or distance

maybe a lack of effort

or energy

or something

to bridge the gap and

maintain knowing

instead we become known

a thing of the past

There is no set list of instructions

just an understanding that

at some point something is

and the next

it simply is not.