Beach Ball - Unedited - See 'Teach Me a Lesson' Contest

There's a beach ball stuck in the rafters of the pool It's been there for the 7 years I've been coming here It contains air from the lungs of an unknown person, an essence that rests here though they left and likely never consider the fact I wonder all the places I've left pieces of me Caught sight of but unknown Known but not seen Recalled gently Where my presence never left a place but I never returned Sometimes I encounter it with a long lost friend who has a memory or an item I made, a saying or dance I embodied that they kept somehow There are some people I'd like to ask - who was I in that moment of my life when we passed I hope those fragments are more than the air I breathed on an unremembered day And are the reason people smile and hold an item in their hands to conjure back like I do on occasion Small links of the unforgotten That piece me together as someone who existed