Promise me
you'll do as I want
and this is what:

When I die
treat me not as someone
gone forever
but someone who was
never here

I'll be happy to be forgotten
if my memory brings you
pain
and longing
for someone who's never coming back

I don't want to be
kept in your heart
if my presence in it
causes you sadness

I want to think I'm important enough
to be forgotten
that you need to forget me just
so you could completely
avoid the loneliness my
absence gives
that forgetting me is the only way
to make you happy again

I assume I am worthy of
your forgetting
that when I'm dead,
you can never be okay
unless you take me out of your brain
totally
without one bit
you'll remember of me

But I do want you to remember
feeling happy-
to maintain the happiness
you've felt with me
without knowing where
it came from
or how you feel it
or why you are
without wanting to know
the why and how and what
I want you to just cherish the feeling
that it's there and all history
doesn't matter anymore

I want you to forget about me
the way memories last
only until death
or maybe after they will stay
the same or completely different,
I don't know
just forget me

I want to be worthy of your forgetting
because only then will I be satisfied
I've lived my life with you
the best way I could have
and could think of