A Remembering
A
Remembering
A remembering.
He’d had a remembering.
He did not want it.
There was darkness in there.
It was trying to get out.
An unordinary memory,
Alive yet,
And hungry.
How had it come to be his?
It felt
Outside,
Though he remembered his part,
Though not how it ended,
For here it was,
Attempting to be once more.
Why was this his?
Why was he meant to carry?
Was he always to remember?
Or should he forget?
To forget,
An easing perhaps,
A passage away,
Or a means of escape?
The remembering,
Not painless,
Not at all,
But less burdensome,
Than allowing the thing
To be free,
And be invested in another,
Or several others,
Or more than that,
And to find himself burdened
With the guilt of the robbing of innocence.
So, he remembered.
Then reminded himself
To remember again soon.
Soon.
Too soon.
Always too soon.
Cliff Lake 8/31/2024
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