i thought i never would forget

i went back in time today a box i thought

i'd thrown away

had fallen off the basement shelf

i tripped and almost hurt myself

scattered there across the floor

a new year's eve hat from '94

ticket stubs to billy joel and pictures

from the sugar bowl

some of these souvenirs i remember

mostly i don't

it's funny how time reduces a keepsake

to a footnote

the wheres and the whens that meant

so much then

have gracefully moved along

my memory had mercy on me and let me go on

considering everything you meant i thought

i never would forget

here's us dancing on your birthday

july 29th or 28th

the song was always and forever