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Amnesia

November 26, 2014
By Roseate PLATINUM, San Ramon, California
Roseate PLATINUM, San Ramon, California
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Favorite Quote:
"Life is too short to be anything but happy."


Lonesome.

Is this what adulthood

is supposed to feel like?

 

It's like I've got amnesia

because I'll have forgotten you

and then suddenly flash back to you,

staining the blank slate

I'd finally gotten clean

because I'll remember:

I miss you.

 

I'll recall bit by bit how

you were constantly by my side,

steadying me,

guiding me,

catching me.

Then I'll look over and see

an empty spot instead,

the absence refusing to be filled

despite my constant glances

and desperate wishing.

 

When I remember it all,

tears bleed out of my eyes,

blinding me so that

I fall

and hit my head.

 

I'll wake up,

alone.

Where am I?

And why do I ache?

 

Lonesome.

Is this what adulthood

is supposed to feel like?


The author's comments:

I tried to make the poem mimic how people get amnesia in the fist place. At the end, the narrator "falls and hits her head", metaphorically meaning she's tripped over memories of her past lover. After being struck by pain, she forgets everything. All she knows is that something hurts, and that she's alone. Then the cycle starts all over again.


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