Delete Or Save
"Delete Or Save"
High technology now gives a choice
to simply retain or throw away,
pictures, emails, texts and voice mails
that accumulate from day to day!
Remembrances and memories though
do not have such luxuries!
There is no "Delete Or Save" button
to erase what Life decrees!
How easy it is to make a selection
to discard once and for all,
anything one deems no more important!
Nothings too big nor too small!
But for the world that is within,
this choice is not in sight,
"Delete Or Save"
doesn't erase a wrong,
nor make a bad memory
seem right!
One thing though shared in common,
a life event in the memory stays,
as does social media on the internet,
it stays there 'til the end of days!
So when it's time to discard and throw away,
"Remember, it is leaving the device,
but it is still out there
in cyber space somewhere,
and it may return,
and the return
may not be nice!
Both ways involve using memory.
One's artificial and the other's genuine!
The artificial has become the real almost,
and the genuine is considered on borrowed time!
Life with it's genuine moments,
are true memories that flood the heart's space!
Sometimes, try as we may,
we will never some memories erase!
So what one does in this world
is now for all eyes to see,
but remember,
"Delete Or Save"
is not an option
for the heart's
true memory!
WTA-IV 3/29/2016
Copyright © Walter T. Ashe | Year Posted 2016
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