Do You Remember

Age nibbles at life Getting older makes you think twice Strolling down memory lane You noticed some things never change Memory, is more complex; of mute agenda and subtext Sometimes I can’t think what is next? In my own imagining, I begin to live. In my own remembering, all my sins please forgive A primitive mix, of future thoughts and subtle tricks. I have a headache too much thinking makes me sick I have many days of happiness that were much too brief. There is longer nights of pain and grief. In the deep pits of my mind My past is not hard to find Today will be a memory yesterday is a memory drifting away When I reminisce of my past I have nothing to say What would we be without the power to recall? Without our gift of memory we'd be little at all Memory of our past and of our future, Leaves us with endless wounds to nurture "Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.” Kevin Arnold