(new year's display)

(new year's display)

confetti bursts out of my chest

like a rainbow display of 

one thousand tiny paper memories

dancing and drifting into the new year.

I grasp at them with frantic fingers

stuffing them back inside my hollowed heart

desperate to hold onto every single one

when I notice the few that escape me

were those memories 

we never got to make.

@paige.thepoet