#forgetting poems on Hello Poetry

Nicole Dec 2020

Forgiving is more than difficult and challenging

But if to not forgive or forget

You will live your life in regret and denial

Resent will build and build

For we are humans for we f*ck up and do things we deeply regret

For not to be excusable but responsible

If to imagine a world with them gone or hurt

Remorse and resent in yourself will imperfectly mix

Building a lifetime of continuous persistent regret

The question being is it worth it to not forgive and forget

For will you ever truly move on?

#forgiving #forgetting #mistakes #flaw #flaws #exonerate #resent #blame

JD Dec 2020

Distance

Your eyes don't want to see me
Your arms can't hold me tight
Your lips won't kiss me

Was it me who drifted away?
Was it you who moved on?
Was it just time and came between us?

Sadly, we drift apart from loved ones.

#distance #love #forgetting

Jeremiah Hockaday Nov 2020

Because I can't remember

one million times
Imma draw my mama's face
so I don't forget.

This is my first published poem! wow I'm such a professional

#grief #memory #death #sadness #forgetting #fear #afraid

lua Nov 2020

the patient

"hello, what is your name?"

the familiar vibration in my ears
that creeps its way into my blood
a buzz
a hum
constant
beneath my skin
when days were louder
like the crash of pots and pans
in my grandmother's house
where the ceiling was littered with butterflies
like the static from empty radio stations
akin to that of crunching snow
and the harsh grating of metal

they are the memories dipped in sepia
and overexposed flashes of light
dripping as they walk on
leaving footprints
a silhouette

it is the fear of our wrinkling hands that drive us closer to the edge
to the end
as the sun and moon rewind in a never ending cycle
a loop
right before a leap of faith
towards that never ending youth
the desperate sliver of summer at the end of a blurry december's haze
when nothing is recognisable
a restart

"hello, what is your name?"

a poem based on The Caretaker's Everywhere At The End Of Time

#dementia #sepia #forgetting #restart #reminisce #nostalgia #fear #youth #old

kiran goswami Oct 2020

I am a Writer

'Of all the stories you have ever written,
how many have you forgotten?'

They asked.

And suddenly I remembered you.

#stories #love #writing #forgetting #remember #memories #writer

Ila Oct 2020

Regrets

I hate having regrets-as anyone does, so I do my best to make sure I don’t have any. I can count the number of regrets I have on one hand. I’ve conditioned myself not to regret the things I have done and will do.

My biggest regret at the moment was that I told you it would be hard to love you.

I said it after things were revealed, but I had no idea the effect it would leave. I told you I used the wrong words-I really did use the wrong ones.

I claim to be good with words and yet I let those few escape my mouth.

It was so easy to love you. There are so many things to love about you. I loved you and all the parts you hated about yourself. I would’ve kissed the scars left from the past if I could. I immediately tried to take it back, I have no idea if it worked.

I was scared and confused but saying “I love you” 4 hours after suddenly made everything better. Everything was so clear at that moment.

Tears cloud my vision. I’m so sorry.

I love you; I’m sorry; things I can never tell you again.

#regrets #love #forgetting #sorry #sad #heartbreak #breakup

Christina Jackson Oct 2020

The long sleep

I would beg on bent knee
for all the gods to bring you
back to me

We were giants once
Do you remember?
The days we basked in
the sunlight
On the rocks, where the waves
crashed down upon us
Skin warmed and kissed
by the dying rays

I would beg on bent knee
for all the gods to bring you
back to me

When we became shrunken
like the voodoo heads
That hang in car windows
Do you remember?
You smiled back at me
Crookedly, lovingly

Your tender heart could
not bear the darkness
As I have welcomed it in
Easily, like an old friend

And I'd rip these trees
Root and stem
Beg on bent knee
For you, back again

And where will I stand?
When the earth opens up
and swallows me whole
Like the hole in my heart

Back in the place I left you
is where you'll find me
Down on bent knee

Earth rumbling with anger

I'll never be free
©2020 Christina Jackson

#life #love #forgiving #forgetting #healing

Amanda Hawk Oct 2020

Tomorrow

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

#tomorrow #forgetting #remember #hope #writing

Marisela Veludo Sep 2020

Impossible to Forget

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?

#forgetting #love #hurt #pain #poem #rhymes #poetry #intense #expression

Sasha Paulona Sep 2020

If I

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.....

#poetry #forgetting