I’ve longed to forget you
I’ve prayed for my mind to erase your name
I ask to hold lessons and memories untainted
As slowly you become a little less
I realize so many people don’t get to forget
Faces, hands, smells, pain
are burned
DEEP
DOWN
their neural pathways are trenches to abusers names
I’ve got it easy
Someday soon I will not think of you for a day
then a week
then a month
And I will ask “who?” when they suddenly bring you up
You’ll be a subject long dusty
crumbling away