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Amanda Hawk Oct 2020
Tomorrow lingers on my fingertips

Smudged black ink as I flip through the memories

Hovering over faces and names

That have become foreign to my tongue

I can remember the laughter

Tucked in each crease

Until I am falling within each broken loop and letter

How easy it is to forget

And how much easier it is to remember

Tripping over my shadow

I watch the sun slowly set

Holding the last ray of light close to me

As if I can capture hope
Marisela Veludo Sep 2020
Paper cut feeling, a thousand times
Warm touches, that eases sometimes
Puzzle brain with missing pieces
It gets colder, the warmth decreases
Words of comfort, kisses so sweet
Yet its still there, it makes me weak
Forgive the actions, believe the words
Forgetting is impossible, keeps chirping like birds
Like a jellyfish, internal, immortal
Can I burry it, can it be mortal?
Sasha Paulona Sep 2020
If I look
at the moon or the moonless sky
and the summer rain pouring out of the window

If I touched
a warmest hand or a crystal frozen in ice
and wrinkle body withering its life
everything brings me to you,
as if everything that exists,
air, light, darkness
Even a tiny leaf
falling from a tree
waited for you to leave from my heart

If suddenly
I forget you
don't look for me back
because it's something you shouldn't remain me

If you think it childish and mad,
since many years
the wind of moments
passes through my life
and if I forget you
at any moment
that I lost in a meaningless dream
remember
that on that moment
at that day,
my feet that were pressed to the ground
begin a new journey.
But without everything I had so far.

If every day
every hour,
I feel that you are the destined for me
I overwhelmed
with uncertainty and unbearable beauty
if the wind is night
every night
blow to you in vain
seeking for burns in cigarette between your fingers
for me , for my love
in me all that burns are repeat,
in me nothing is forgotten,
my love feeds on you
as long as I live  
it will be my unrevealed
true soul,
without you...
Without forgetting mine.....
Ninah Sep 2020
the bridge we had built stood wooly on its frame,
despite our best efforts, it collapsed
under the weight of darkness
and it never stood again

a few years later
new houses appeared
at the edge of the river
nobody there to remember
the other side of it
it takes time to heal
but you heal
a few years later
Carl Miller Aug 2020
To stop me from feeling
You must stop my heart from beating
So look back into me
And feel my soul fleeting

To keep me from seeing
You must blind my eyes forever
So shine your light bright
And through my synapse sever

To keep me from speaking
You must bind up my mouth
So grab your belt by it's loop
And send my words deep south

To keep me from from thinking
You must break down my mind
So load up your gun
And leave my thoughts behind
Let Go
chang Aug 2020
sometimes,
i hate the world
for still going on,
like it has
completely forgotten
about what happened to us.


Like it has
completely forgotten  
about people like us.
Shevek Appleyard Jun 2020
I scowl at you
Nibbling tomorrow’s mistakes
You catch me watching, eyes accused
But I know you’re ready to paint the whole night blue
Slurring apologies and blurring memories
You stumble out promises and throw up on them
You cry into the night and in the morning it’s not yours
It’s my problem

I call in defence for myself
I can’t help
I wipe away your essence
Even the shards I hold pleasant
I tear and delete
Angry at how  
I need more than myself now
To feel complete

Falling into pages of how I felt
But I don’t know how I feel
I don’t know what was real
It’s scariest to focus on further
When all you did was forget

Pitied partings and ***, held in regret
My open heart left no respect
pragya santani Jul 2020
There are things we spend years forgetting,
But with just a tiny wave of hope all that forgetting is washed ashore.
Not looking back
To what you had become,
Because you were always busy
Fending for yourself.
Waiting desperately
To close the chapter,
That had you
Forgetting yourself.
Jennifer Herbert Jun 2020
I took the words that dove from your lips
And let them drown inside me
Hoping that they would sink forever
Suffocating your washed up memory

Your name on the tip of my tongue
Your voice at the edge of my brain
Like jumping off a cliff to end it all
Forgetting you is hard to explain
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