I forgot to pick up milk,

Maybe I left the door unlocked.

Forgot to have your oil change done,

And get your Michelin’s swapped;

Forgot to take the garbage out

And turn the Netflix off.

Forgot your needs from me have changed

Since the days that blue jeans were enough

But I remembered you in Edmonton

Winnipeg, Sault St. Marie

Remembered you down the I-95,

To highway 1, through The Keys.

From the base of the Appalacians

To the shadows of the great Rockies

Gazing up at midnight stars, I wonder

_Do you still think of me?_

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Could be the stars that shine tonight

Tomorrow will cease to glow

Might be the nuclear waste we’ve buried

Will melt all the Arctic snow

Maybe the decision,

Between these two politicians;

Is choosing between death by water or by smoke.

And a silent independent statement is made

when you refuse to vote.

Still, I remembered you in Niagara Falls

In Miami, and St. Augustine

I remembered you in Jerusalem streets

And gazing at Jordan across the Dead Sea

I remember you in clear Northern Lakes

Watching fireflies under Maple trees

As my photographs and memories fade, I wonder,

Do you still remember me?

-_a poem by my father._

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