Feb. 16, 1973
Poetry by Michael F. Nyiri
Future Memories With You
I used to could say it all before
I used to sit beyond my incapabilities
And talk about myself forever.
They used to call me a good conversationalist
I used to be very popular.
Then I changed
I wanted to face reality with no fronts
I wanted the inescapable "truth."
Then, within the course of a few months,
My mother fell int life's limbo
My family changed
My sister fell in love
for real
I found myself lost
Among all the truths I'd ever needed
I reasoned carefully
But it was no use
I tried to sit beyond my incapabilities
But it was still no use
Then you stepped from out of nowhere
And the faceless girls in dreams assumed identity
And life means something to me
Now.
The past is full of dire memories
But the future has memories which
Haven't been counted.
I want to spend these future memories
With you.
copyright 1999-2004 by Michael F. Nyiri
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