3.1415

Irrational numbers

92653

Phone numbers, ID’s

58979

French horn scale fingerings

32384

House numbers, license plates

62643

Spelling tests

38327

What’s your number?

Cool, I can’t forget it

I whiz through mental math

But forget to do the homework

I know one hundred and twenty

Four or five or six

Digits of 3.1415926

Did I take my meds at six?

No wonder I feel sick!

Sometimes I fear my mind ...

Memory

Is

The one

I wanna erase

But

Not all of them

As some are

My plays

My days

But

Many are hard one to

Gaze

So can I erase?

The hardest play?...

Who even are you?

If the only memories you have left are stories you're fed by family, how can you even decipher what you were?

Are you really that little girl in that picture, smiling with all her crooked teeth?

A smile so genuine, you wonder how long it's been since you've smiled like that.

Of course you don't remember.

How could you?

You've removed all the old furniture from the house in ...

When shadows fall and day departs,

I mourn a love that once did bloom,

A fragile blossom snapped and gone,

Thy vacant chair, a dusty room.

The echoes of thy laughter die,

Like petals scattered on the breeze,

Yet tender memories still I hold,

A treasured sigh on bended knees.

With faith I'll search the hallowed ground,

Where buried love yet holds its sway,

And trust that there, new blooms are f...

Remember

When we used to make mud pies

And potions out of dirt and pond water.

Or when we dug for worms

Even though my dad would get mad

That we dug up his grass.

And we’d go playing in the woods

Looking for salamanders

Or for wild berry bushes.

You remember,

Don’t you?

You have to remember.

We spent so many hours

Days

Weeks

Years together as a kid

We always played together

Together.

 ...

Shut up

Your too loud

Get out of my head

Stop buzzing

Shut up

I’m not doing this

Not going back

To that awful night

Shut up

That’s my reason

I don’t want an out

This time

Shut up

Please

I’m scared

So very scared

Shut up

Fine

I’ll do it

But there are boundaries

Rules

For our expression

Get out of my head

Get out my head

Head, get out

Get out

Out

Bleeding

Out

Please stop

I’m frightened

Shut u...

A small pitter patter of rain begins. For anyone else, rain might mean dreadful times. Times filled with sorrow and pain.

Or it may mean evidence of springing hope, a rainbow on the other side, a light of green when the gloom finally leaves.

But for me,

it just means Rose.

It had been a hot day, but the grey in the sky warned of a storm.

I was kicked out of the house. Pa got home from wo...

Tears are streaming down my face

Along with water from the rain

I bet up there you feel the same

One heart, two halves

One’s beating, the other is maimed

My half’s barely getting by,

Without your sunshine from the sky

Send some please, or I might die

One heart, two halves

One is thumping, the other has died

Remembering the day I met you

Your eyes a clear and crystal blue

I didn’t know our friend...

My memory isn’t my own. Maybe it used to be but this person in my head is not me. She is happy, she is beautiful, she is pure. Pure hearted, pure minded. I no longer recognise myself nor do I recognise this personality that seems to follow me. I no longer see me. I see someone who tried and failed. I see someone who wishes things were different. I hate who I have become. I hate myself. No, I despi...

I was so small

Once

Once upon a time

Or was I?

I don’t recall the time

Just

Just a feel

How to describe?

I remember it

Well

Well enough

I was full of joy

This treasured memory

Happy

Happiness and joy

And balloons and laugher

I don’t know what it was

When

When was I so young?

I was such a happy child that day

I know it meant the world to me

This

This extraordinary birthday

Just because that t...