Remember the sky even though
it won’t remember you.
Know the constellations tales
even as they know not yours.
Remember the moon’s pull
despite its denying your shadow.
Remember the sun, the dawn even
as its novas your sight,
singes your memories
in forgetfulness, grief and time.
Remember the sunset,
that yields to night
that hardly embraces you.
Remember not your birth,
the maternal pains,
the gasps to your first breath,
the silent cursing of your first form.
Remember not your life’s mistakes,
your mother’s and hers.
Disperse them in the wind,
awaiting angels to hurl
them into the sun.
Remember not
your father’s indifference,
the times he chose
not to be a part of your life.
Remember the earth in all its colors
even as it entombs everything.
that skins it.
Remember every plant, animal eaten;
the fallen tree that is your house frame
and every book you have read-
for their death and your life
is the child of every poem written
and consumed in the soul.
Remember the howl of the wind
in its indifference,
the universe’s deafness
that seems not to listen
or know you.
Remember that language,
your scream is the retort
to the universe’s grudge.
Shout “I remember”
even as it whispers
“I remember you not.”
