Time’s Slow Fade

That former love’s words recalled more
In bits and pieces like lyrics
Of a song recalled less and less
Her face shimmers further to empty space
Subjecting me to growing hauntings
Ghostward subjects of my thinning mind
The slow fade of misremembering is
How memory cannot cheat age
How a heart cannot keep true beat
All leading down a trail to emptiness
Even greater than time beyond
A pendulum ticked down to a stop