Bonus points to anyone who can identify the source of the quote used in here (and yes, I admit to shameless copying of the phrase- I wish I authored it, but I didn't) !

Lost Memory

I remember

I remember all our secret meetings

Our deception

Your masque hugging your porcelain features so delicately,

The ebony, silken threads hiding you from all but me

I remember all the night-sent letters

Our affair

"If kisses could be sent by letter," you wrote,

"you could read my words with your lips."

I remember all the energy you had

Our lust

the way your eyes would light up when you saw me,

the sparkling blue like sky and sea tossed together

I remember when you were alive

Our pain

The expression you held as the blood dripped from the wound

Inflicted by your wife's poison-thorned rose

I remember