#prosopagnosia - Hello Poetry

Like a time-lapse view of a melting ice cube, or the erasure of a blackboard equation, he disappeared from his face. All the features remained: a head, a nose, eyes, mouth. What melted away right at that moment was who he was. Once a familiar relative— now a total stranger. A being without a story, zero associations, nameless. She marveled at the fluidity of her perception. The building blocks and scaffolding of the mind just tenuous threads, gossamer filaments. The brain as cotton candy. Where others may have panicked, raced to gather all the vanished referents of this person, she floated calmly in the buoyant waters of the impersonal. She only resisted when the reel began to play in reverse and—feature-by-feature—this family member re-inhabited the body sitting across the room from her and she could only try in vain to forget again.

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May 20, 2021

May 20, 2021 at 4:38 PM UTC

alyson-lie

Prosopagnosia

Like a time-lapse view of a melting ice cube, or the erasure of a blackboard equation, he disappeared from his face. All the features remained: a head, a nose, eyes, mouth. What melted away right at that moment was who he was. Once a familiar relative— now a total stranger. A being without a story, zero associations, nameless. She marveled at the fluidity of her perception. The building blocks and scaffolding of the mind just tenuous threads, gossamer filaments. The brain as cotton candy. Where others may have panicked, raced to gather all the vanished referents of this person, she floated calmly in the buoyant waters of the impersonal. She only resisted when the reel began to play in reverse and—feature-by-feature—this family member re-inhabited the body sitting across the room from her and she could only try in vain to forget again.

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bodies starting to lose shape blurry smiles without a name the person in mirror, they are looking strange i'm sorry that i don’t remember identities just seem to fade

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Mar 5, 2020

Mar 5, 2020 at 3:27 PM UTC

dissociated

prosopagnosia

bodies starting to lose shape blurry smiles without a name the person in mirror, they are looking strange i'm sorry that i don’t remember identities just seem to fade

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I saw them, I sw**r Sometimes they were in line, Sometimes scattered everywhere I saw them around me They were on the ground Leave them alone and They'll never make a sound Touch them the wrong way And if they’re close, they’ll crumble In their downfall In the end, they'll always lose their humble I can’t see the difference Is it just me or they are all the same They’re just clones of each other I can feel their pain I couldn’t tell them apart Without my fingertips They’re all duplicates A species of a looped never-ending clips What if I am just as bare, Another domino I can’t recognise my own reflection So I guess I’ll never know.

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Feb 1, 2019

Feb 1, 2019 at 6:39 AM UTC

Asominate

Prosopagnosia

I saw them, I sw**r Sometimes they were in line, Sometimes scattered everywhere I saw them around me They were on the ground Leave them alone and They'll never make a sound Touch them the wrong way And if they’re close, they’ll crumble In their downfall In the end, they'll always lose their humble I can’t see the difference Is it just me or they are all the same They’re just clones of each other I can feel their pain I couldn’t tell them apart Without my fingertips They’re all duplicates A species of a looped never-ending clips What if I am just as bare, Another domino I can’t recognise my own reflection So I guess I’ll never know.

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I want to write about you I want to let you know I’ll send my love to you from afar I want to write about you I want to write about you Describe you as a perfect disaster Make you feel the same way I feel I want to write about you I want to write about you Make you a king among all the people I’ll give you the crown you deserve I want to write about you I want to write about you Your hair always up in a quiff Eyes shining like a dime I want to write about you I want to write about you Tell you how it feels To not be loved back I want to write about you I want to write about you Tell them how it feels When you looked at my way I want to write about you I want to write about you Tell them how it feels When you looked at her with affection I want to write about you I want to write about you Tell them how much I want your eyes to look at me Tell them how much I want you to smile at me I want to write about you I want to write about you Months had passed And now I can’t remember your face I want to write about you I want to remind you Notice me as soon as you see me ‘Cause I might not remember your face I want to remind you I want to remind you Talk to me please Your voice is only what I can recognize I want to remind you

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Sep 17, 2016

Sep 17, 2016 at 3:25 AM UTC