remembering

forgetting, i hear will solve anything

but how much does one wish to forget

all of the issues at hand, or just the ones with meaning

and does one get a clean slate, or is there a sort of debt

if one was to truly forget, the pain and heartache

would it make any of it worth it?

does the pleasure in fact justify the heartbreak

or is it the heartbreak that justifies a romantic

if one chose to forget and then didn't know how to love

didn't know how to feel

didn't know how to hurt

then would any of it be real

would any of it be worth anything of the sort

because heartache may be rough

and the pain unbearable

but isn't love just as tough

and even more, incomparable

i can not say, for i choose not to forget

i would much rather remember however hurtful it may be

because love may be unrequited

but i would much rather hurt than not know what causes this misery

perhaps in the end, loosing feeling is the debt

and all thats really left is in fact regret.

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