Imagine you could remember your life

from the beginning of your time as a human being.

Not your childhood friends or your first puppy

but your first steps or first words.

Knowing what happened is good

so why do you know and not remember?

Someone tells you

you see pictures

but that dosen't count.

How can you know who you are

without knowing who you have been?

Not know.  Remember?.

you wouldn't have cared in your earier years.

How much you had grown to forget

How?  How can you stand

to have a future to envision

yet never moving on from the past.

Because you can't even look back

as your memories fall away

and fade to dust.