Nothing Stays Too Far Away

And with every small life’s setbacks
Opportunities remain, more
Opportunities emerging

As the previous fade. Recall
Every name important to you
From your second or third decade.

You can’t quite, but that’s not the point.
Think of them as actual flesh,
The bodies they were as they were,

The humans whose good opinion
Mattered to you then, as they are
This moment of recollection,

Names bobbing along in the waves.
Some are gone, some beyond the bend,
Some may be names that you still say

Right to their faces to this day.
Think of their opportunities,
Passing, current, now, never, stayed.