Where Have They Gone?

Where has it gone, that memory
that matched names to faces,
attached today
to  the day of the week
by which we call it?

Where have they gone–
my favorite cape,
my car keys and my iPhone,
the lid to the butter dish
and my reading glasses?

Gone with that wind, perhaps,
that blew away last autumn’s leaves,
then snow from the sidewalk
and that errant downspout
from its final weak attachment.

Where went lost loves,
my parents
and departed friends?
Dogs, birds and cats
and other loved, once-living things?

Gone, too, with the wind?
If so, this  final question:
where goes the wind
and someday,
where go I?

For dVerse Poets, the assignment is to construct a poem centered around the line “Where is?” of “Where are?