Do Walls Remember Us Poem by Gabyel Rei Guillen

do walls remember us
we forget them
we search instead for the next wall

satisfied we levy on its regret
for being forgetful
and speak of it in a different name

like
male, female.
like wall. Past

you and me, we are grieving
over strangers of our time
phantoms of our lips;

your eyes forsake mine,
mine forsake yours
and a passing bends to the fire
hungrily.
after all
we are forgotten
we are forgotten