Getting the memories flowing

Poets are very intune with emotions, they have this ability to make each word drip with 3-5 different emotions making their work fall under so many different genres. W.S. Merwin's poem, "To Myself"  is one I beleived could pull the heart strings in any reader. It is one of those poems where after you finish reading it, there is some moment in your life that can be associated to the poem and you understand how the poet felt when he was writing this. To each reader there are different genres a poem falls under depending on the emotion the reader feels, to me it was a rememberance poem, a solitude poem, and a love poem.  The line " Even when I forget you I go on looking for you.."(Merwin) is that person remembering another and rekindling that sence of comfort and familiarity they had with the person they lost. It seemed to me to be almost a poem of how even after your true love is gone you still have that feeling like they are there and they never left you. Its a sad dose of reality when you start thinking of that special person you lost and how you begin to feel them around again and get a false sence of hope that they were there then remembering they are only a memory now. Thats what I felt the poet felt, a false sence that someone was there again only to remember they are no longer around. Its one of the only poems I think readers catch themselves thinking and feeling long before they read " To Myself" by Merwin.