THE PROBLEM WITH REMEMBERING

The problem with remembering

Is the memory itself.

Recalling hurts and scars,

Revisiting pain and anguish,

Turning inside out joy that

Should have been

To tears that salted earth.

The problem with remembering

Is the image itself.

Veiled by memory’s haze,

Only sharpest visions loom

With points so keen they cut

And wound where wounds once healed

Turning back to time long past.

The problem with remembering

Is the forgetting.

Recall the face of innocence.

Revisit love’s revelation.

Turn around and find the joy,

The unremembered lingering delights,

Imprisoned in the attic of the mind.

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