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 that
the odd one, out

an easily alienable
reminder held better
at a distance

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