RELATIONSHIP Poem: A MEMORY UNCHERISHED, by Xavier Fox

Do you remember this Rooftop?
when we would sit
right here
on this ledge watching
the world going
‘round the circle below?

Do you remember
playing that card game?
when you threw
the cards off the roof
in anger? as if I
were the one cheating?
Oh! The irony!
*snicker*
we call this

foreshadowing

in my discipline.

Do you remember
when I realized
the window to
that little vacant rooftop
apartment
had been unlocked the whole time?

I remember.

Do you remember?

that one night
in that little rooftop apartment
it was cold and you were
straddling my trembles
in the bed
of that little apartment?
to warm up you
buried your head
into my chest and said
“Cozy! Cozy! Cozy!”
and I’d never felt
more loved.

Do you remember that?

I do.

Right now, I am here
on this Rooftop looking
through the locked window
of that little rooftop apartment

I see two little ghosts playing
with each other

I see me
I see you

I see what was

I see what could’ve.

I smile.

I’m leaving this Rooftop.