You Have Forgotten Me Well

And we can’t even
Accidentally
Hurt each other now,

No disappointments,
Any appointments,
For sixteen years now.

Happy sweet sixteenth
To your widower
And to you, his ghost,

Younger and younger
By comparison
By the day. A ghost

Is better being
Than any living
Creature thing, only

Since creatures remain
To be haunted by
What are thoughts only,

After all. You have
Forgotten me well.
No atom of you

Remembers any
Pleasures or pains, while
I remember you.