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Conscious Of It only when I think about it only when I’m conscious of it only sometimes, I think of you as alive maybe I should have gone to your funeral maybe I should have seen your body maybe I could have seen the color of your skin or the needle marks near your lips they used to keep your mouth together maybe I needed to see these things but I don’t know if I was ready I still don’t know if I am ready maybe if I went I wouldn’t have so much to say to you maybe I wouldn’t expect you to come back maybe then I wouldn’t want to touch your face and feel your skin maybe it would be easier that way Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.