Where Do Secrets Go?

By skinner_jennifer

Thu, 28 Feb 2019
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Close my eyes...Shh!

Secrets hide inside,

diminishing silently

staring back at me,

 

then – into the abyss

many piled so high,

lost in darkness

long forgotten,

 

some are

fragmentary,

they're hard

to make out,

 

like notes

written,

becoming

wrinkled

with time,

 

on faded

moist paper

dissolving

in memory,

shrouded forever.

 

 

 

 

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Submitted by HarryC on

A good question, Jenny.  I sometimes wonder where they come from, too.

Some we keep smiley

Submitted by celticman on

our memories really do degrade. dendrites and axons and the connections they make start to break. In other words we get doowally. nice one jenny. 

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

I suppose much we once thought important can fade, or be buried deep. I think it was Forest who wrote a piece mentioning that we can be told 'secrets' we'd rather not be burdened with – those are probably ones someone finds it difficult to forget though they'd like to.

Sometimes scents or some occurrence can suddenly bring back a memory to recall one had totally forgotten about. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

this is great how you make visual something so abstract, I forgot Well-Wisher's user name yesterday, which scared me. I knew it really but it WAS  like groping around in the dark, I had to go to find it physically online. And forgetting words for things, vocabulary getting smaller. You have expressed it so well! And as with all your poems, it is beautuful too

 

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

Hi Harry,

the many secrets people have told me get locked away and over time forgotten, now I can't even remember what they were about. Like you said sometimes I can't even remember where they came from.

Thank you for reading and sharing your thoughts.

Jenny. 

 

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

Hi Jack,

love that word...doowally. Yes I think our brains just forget because it's not really our buisness, just something that's been shared.

Thanks for reading and letting me know you liked.

Jenny.

 

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

Hi Rhiannon.

when people have shared a secret with me it can play on my mind for a while, but over time with other things to think about the memory drifts away. I think it must be my age, but I can't remember one single secret I've been told, yet I know I've shared them...crazy isn't it? I do wonder where they go or where they're stored in our brain.

Thank you for reading and commenting.

Jenny.

 

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

Hello Di,

you're not the only one who forgets names, I see people In the street I used to know and forget their names. Sometimes I walk upstairs and forget what I went up for, it's so frustrating, my partner tells me not to think about it too much and it will come to me when I least expect.

Whenever I'm writing if words come to me I have to get them down straight away, otherwise they disappear never to be written which is usually at night when I'm trying to get off to sleep.

I love that you found this poem visual and abstract. Your words always put a smile on my face.

Many thanks for reading and letting me know.

Jenny.