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Remember How We Forgot

Remember how we forgot
to fall until we were already
in too deep?
That the emotions we felt
were nothing
but small sections
of our whole story.
And there would always
be someone new
to make us believe
we were
everything.

Remember how we forgot
to look both ways
before stumbling into the street?
How our parents
raced after us anxiously.
And we laughed
because we didn’t have a care
in the world.

Remember how we forgot
that a broken heart
wasn’t the end of the world.
That the tears
we let stream down our faces
were quick to end.
But we still thought
we would never find love again.

Remember how we forgot
that sometimes
the princess doesn’t find
her Prince Charming?
But we grew up believing
that we’d find
the one
before anyone else.
So we got our hearts broken
one too many times,
thinking
this is it.

Remember how we forgot
to cry when we hurt?
How we held all the tears in
to make us invincible.
But we found out too late
that even invincible things
have a weakness.

Remember how we forgot
to enjoy the
little things in life?
So we ignored the beauty
in flowers blooming.
And we regretted it later.

Remember how we forgot
that everything comes to an
end.
And how we never know
if our life ends
in a dot or a dash.
So we grow up thinking
we’ll get a happy ending.

Remember how we forgot
to stop thinking
about the future?
So we didn’t grow up
too fast.
But we kept thinking ahead
and lost sight 
of the gift of the present.

And so before we knew it,
our lives became a series of stories
beginning with the phrase
Remember How We Forgot.

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