you used to play the piano. why did you stop.

i recalled the tune from my childhood with a crushing melancholy, that which was not yet existent to me the time when i did not need to rely on memory to know the chords, because they were being played right before me, lovingly, a manner that is now part of the past.

yes, i do feel like i've been dead for a long time now

ever since my innocence slipped away

unnoticeably as it did.

we've all died in our own ways.