Memories on a Screen - Eduardo Espinoza-Gonzalez

Pixels of a fading past flood into my screen,

Particles of light reflecting your face, my eyes tell me it’s you,

But my heart knows it’s not the you I knew,

Times firm hands grasping at my tired aging shoulders,

The same hands that pulled us apart,

Translucent colors paint versions of us that I no longer feel, like dying embers

Every day slipping farther away in time,

Now were just a couple of adults, who were once kids, who were once friends,

Once family, now no more than strangers in a crowd,

Strangers tangled in the binds of time,

Working 9-5s, Taxes holding us a gunpoint, rent biting at our heals,

You got a new girl, and I got lost somewhere along the wave of time,

As I hastily pull at the strings of fate, praying for the story to be retold,

Pleading for something more than a terabyte of forgotten memories,

Though I know,

The distance is necessary for our dreams, walking paths we cannot follow,

Letting time flow through our hands, with the hope

To reunite with the you of today.

Eduardo Espinoza Gonzalez is a senior at Fresno State's English creative writing program. His writing typically addresses topics such as the supernatural, family, and identity. When he's not obsessing over Spider-Man, Ghostbusters, or procrastinating, he can be found writing fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. His work has been published in journals like the HAIS Literary Journal, the San Joaquin Review, and the CWAA Journal.