your eyes twice

I forgot your eyes 

and was horrified 
when I remembered
your face 
without them

That was the second time.

I forgot your eyes once 
before. It was when
we met yet again.
You reminded me hard
to the back of my head
- and lost in them,
I apologized. 

Your eyes came back to me
like I'd always known;
came back like
the dead. 
Arise.