Memory
Isn’t all it’s cracked up to be
Just think if you could forget
Everything that has ever
Made you grieve
Wouldn’t you want to be free
But what if you forgot
Something you did wrong
But in the sound of her voice
The pain still lives on
Would you want to know
Oh please let it die
All I want to know is
Can I have another try
........

I hate that I'm hyper-aware
Of my social hiccups despair

Equivalent scent of morose
A comical footnote to most

My firing neurons worst care
Is the circle of life is a square


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What do you use
to measure success

Is it gold
or a memory that shines

Your wealth in a bank note
or choices now free

Every moment
—more precious with time

(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2019)