remind me

remind me
of who i am and why i exist
explain why summer came
hot and full of promise
then left
without saying goodbye
now the wood fire relit
the logs burn like my dreams
crackling, burning fierce
destruction by flame

remind me
of who i should be today
for fragments of myself
drift out and upwards
broken from the whole
and i so fear
that i shall lose my core
left to wander in the unknowing
the twilight of the forlorn
never again whole

Copyright © 2011 by Eryll Oellermann