Requiem

Ours is a casual affair, this
after-the-ineffable-fact
relationship that has evolved.
We no longer see one another
as often as we once did.
Absence is the prevailing norm
now, though love and regret
are also an integral part of our
shared experience.  Memory
holds us together.  Sometimes
in the still tranquility of night
I see her and she responds.
I yet live, she does not.