My temples ache inside my head
With a need to be without a thought
No one to speak what cannot be said
My quiet calm forget me not

A storm I carry on my back
Midst howling gale and winters plot
A weighted mass atop me sits
An eerie calm forget me not

A flame of hope inside I keep
To thaw that frozen long forgot
Until the first light left is last
A chilling calm forget me not

Though slowly do the seasons pass
These words embed like branded hot
So be it present or in past
Remember still and *forget me not

And even though
I thought that
I've thrown you away

Turns out,
I just buried you deep
in soil and clay

In the soil
I've unearthed you,
With all its nutrients,
you have survived

I'm thinking how foolish
for my feelings
whom I thought dead
are still alive