sometimes a sorrow grips me
1 october 1996
sometimes
a sorrow grips me
at once unknown
yet familiar
like a bit of amnesia
or maybe deja vu
it seems i should know
from where the sorrow comes
but i just can't recall
and it vanishes
as quickly as it came
was it the music of bach
that brought it back?
some scent wafting through the window?
the dim light of a cloudy day?
the book i just read?
i just don't know
and i don't know why