Memoire

I remember a frozen city,

I remember streets and faubourgs,

The detail of architecture, sublime,

The world then was a vastness unknown.

This city, frozen in my heart,

Has become a crumpled photo

Blackened by time, torn by tears

Fallen from my cheek so often

That I no longer remember

How many times I've cried

For something that once was

Now frozen, forever, not in time

But in mind - so futile, fragile,

That all that ever was to me

Will someday be erased

And the frozen city that was mine
Will be no more.