Memory Fails Me Poem by Dónall Dempsey

I split the atoms
apart

(looking for the heart of the matter)

glued molecules together

to a precise piece of
Space and Time

(and hoped to God that God
didn’t mind) .

I sifted through
Eternity and Memory

and tried to create
just what it was

like to be

kissed by you

but I found I couldn’t

re - create

the tiniest touch

only emptiness and chaos

swam into view

and I remembered
that I had lost you

in a summer somewhere
beyond the power of love.