I chanced to look at the past;
it’s written forms so eternal,
so long as I choose.
You told me
you pick the quotes that
remind you of me
and I didn’t realize what that meant
at the time.
So unquestioning a faith,
so unutterable a love.
“I have found what you are like,
the rain”
but I am no water catch.
My ideas are filled with holes.
Only now, years later,
Do I see how
I failed to hold
what you
were pouring
upon me