Read your last letter

i just read your last letter
years after you posted it
i didn't reply
then

i should have kept in touch
made that effort
you were important
but at the time
i didn't care

i didn't care about me
about you
us
about the future
your past
my past
anything

now i care
but i don't know where
you are

or if i want to find out

you didn't deserve the hurt i
caused
or the pain
you weren't rejected

or maybe you were

you will never hear these
words
but they are important to
me

i feel them now
i think them

i remember

you