How to Remember Me

we've collided too long;
predictable as Velcro

you hook, i loop

overandoverandover 
with tales of you 

first lie to self,
my listening was
significant

the first truth,
I am but 1 more 1
in your catalog
of possibles

you survived
better the lesson
to walk away

i survived
having failed it;
the odd one, out

an easily alienable
reminder held better
at a distance

receptors ever-ready;
surrendering, reticent
at slurred loveyous,
a desperate embrace