To Myself by W.S. Merwin (Poetry Response 3)

To Myself

Even when I forget you
I go on looking for you
I believe I would know you
I keep remembering you
sometimes long ago but then
other timesI am sure you
were her a moment before
and the air is still alive
around where you were and I
think then i can recognize
you who are always the same
who pretend to be time but
you are not time and who speak
in the words but you are not
what they say you who are not
lost when I do not find you

-W.S. Merwin

When I first read this poem, just the beginning part I believed that this was someone trying to find their true selves and their true potential. Now that I have read it once I believe that it is not talking about someone finding themselves, but someone losing someone, a close friend, relative, etc. I enjoyed reading this poem and I actually can connect to this poem, i think everyboody can who has lost a loved one.
Towards the end of the poem, I think is where all the pieces of the poem fit into place. I feel that the end of the poem. Which to understand you have to read carefully cause the words kind of pile together reading it the first few times. The end of the poem explains the lost of a loved one more clearly. Talking about the person in detail, waiting for them to show up, but they never do.
Out of all the poetry responses we have done, this poem was my favorite. It made you think analytically about the poem was actually saying. It also brought up memories of a lost loved one, which makes you think of the loved one, of how you knew them well, but will never see them again.