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The Remnants of What’s Left Behind

March 16, 2023
By Xenos BRONZE, Chicago, Illinois
Xenos BRONZE, Chicago, Illinois
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The Remnants of  What’s Left Behind

 

1. Do you ever forget?


Forgetting your house keys or IDs?

Looking for something but found nothing?


Close your eyes

What do you spy?


A blank or void

Vision destroyed


Replace vision with recollection

Imagine living life with no direction

 

 

2. The World of the    Lost 


Be it kind

Be it foul


My memory has forgotten


A vivid scene once before

A mute and blurred image now


My memory is tarnished


Forget me not

Forget me now


My memory is gone

 

 

3. My Childhood


The precious moments of childhood

Are fleeing for good


Little remnants remained

Not much was gained


See it as you may

Nothing will stay

 

 

4. Theories


My memories

Where have they gone?

 

Have they simply vanished?

Permanently banished?

Leaving nothing behind

Except for blanks to find


The brain remembers all

Seeing, touching, smelling, feeling, hearing

All locked within a wall

Deep within the mind you continue fearing


Is it all an illusion?

Causing this confusion?

To make one’s memory

To fake one’s treasury

 

All is asunder

Tears are shed

One does not fall under

This hell of a bummer

 

 

5. Question

 

What’s lost is never forgotten

What’s forgotten is forever lost


For a man like me

I must move on


One last question remains

Not just for me but for all


Would you consider

A memory forgotten

A memory wasted?



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