Innocence

Karen,
A simple name,
Conjures the most important memories,
A time long ago,

Almost 12 years since,
And here I am writing this,
It's hard to believe, what do I say ?

So long ago,
No hormones to confuse things,
No fancy words,
Or catchy phrase,

Being with you was simple,
Natural as breathing,
I don't even remember what we said,
Just the memories of the emotions,
Made so faint by the etching of time,

I think of you,
Not day by day,
Not since we were split apart,

But now and then,
Yours is a memory I cannot shake,
I don't even know if I want to,
Something so long ago,
So Innocent,

Yet what we had,
What you gave me,
Last to this day,

Like a drug,
I cannot live without,
I've searched for something like what we had,

It was so long ago,
A lifetime in fact,
It seems like I was another person then,
Fear was a simple thing,
Loneliness just a word,
Despair but a concept,

So I think of you,
And I only wonder,
Do you think of me ?