Remember
By Michael Cook
Some people say to me
Who are you
To that I say just history
Who are you
I am just a memory
Who are you
I can’t remember
Do I see me
Unravelled in the knot of life
Are you a mirror or forgotten wife
I think I am a forgotten landscape
Capable of just
Anything
If I put my mind to it
I remember at the age of five
Staring
Staring
At a forgotten landscape
Of vagaries and mist
If I remember
I shall call her Mom
I thought I was in love
Yet the instructions
Were in a Babel
God’s curse bewitched the sinner
A failure to understand
One another
Such a joyous moment
That reeks hypocrisy
To understand another’s pain
Yet I remember it quite hell
Too well
Haunting life a shadow in the moonlight
It sits at the foot of my bed
Smiling with the teeth of a piranha
To devour good memories away
A shoal
They sense a feast of all that’s good
The cave is dark and only you sleep alone
For loneliness is your memory
Of lost but wanting to be found
Am I me or am I you
Pull the covers over your head and sleep
And today I will remember
Over burnt toast because I forgot the time
And jam that went moldy
Just like me
Out of date
I smile because I can buy another jar
If I remember
Today I see sea shells on a bleached sand
A hand
In mine
I see today a time
Walk with me
See what I can sea
A sarape clinging to my thigh
The rolling surf wanted us
Yet my lover wanted me amor
We fought the earth’s nature in a battle royale
And the surf surrendered
With licks of froth and a gentle caress
We became one
You steal that and I never will forgive you
I forgive and forget a lot of things but not that day
If love is all that lasts
I say play on...Minstrel
For you are music to my heart
Begone
And these years will be
Mine
My senses may be weak yet still
I am beyond reproach
Why
because I am me
I leave my history behind
In a glorious dignity
Open your eyes you merchants of gloom
Because we live for today
For I am a capsule of all that is good in my Life
You will never take that away
The End…..
