Walking Among Memories

I wake up,
crawl downstairs,
turn on the monitor and watch the light from its pale glow.
Before a single page pops up on the screen,
I've thought of you all.
I cannot escape you,
everything reminds me of you.
A part of you resides in everything,
calls your name, reminding me of your presence in this world,
as if I could forget it.
Memories of friends, trapped within my mind one moment, and freed the next,
they surround me,
dancing in their colors,
reminding me:
of how we met, those first words you said.
Evert time you made me cry,
and the one day you made me smile.
I click a button, a picture of us all together pops up,
and I smile, more memories flooding the room around me.
That was a beautiful day, together we spent all our time, smiling in each other's presence,
more memories bestowed upon us all.
Crying out, I close the picture, blink back the tears,
for such things they make me smile, and therefore they make me cry.
Emotions, and memories, tied together, rule all,
and I submit to them, with my heart