I Remember Everything You Forgot

I remember everything you forgot

and I didn’t romanticize it

I remember the way you sang to me

as we danced slowly in your living room to the song in the movie

I remember when the snow fell around us

as you helped me into your car outside the liquor store

I remember lying beside you reading poetry for hours while you slept

The books you claimed to buy for you, but I knew they were for me

I remember how you would wait to eat until ten pm

because you knew I’d skipped all my meals and class went that late

What I remember the most is the night you told me you told me

you didn’t love me