sometimes memory speaks unbidden
        unwelcome intruder
        harping haranguing harassing
        suffering no rebuttal
        to its damning accusations

sometimes memory speaks summoned
        happy companion
        buoying brightening blessing
        empowering the miracle
        of tasting the same joy twice

sometimes memory speaks uncertain
        unreliable witness
        hedging hemming hawing
        groping for shadowy apparitions
        that elude discovery

sometimes memory speaks in conversation
        incomparable interlocutor
        delineating defining delighting
        weaving disparate moments
        into a seamless story

and sometimes memory speaks simply
        simply speaks
        enfolding encouraging enthralling
        transfiguring a life mundane
        into something ineffable