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Remember

May 31, 2016
By MusicandMemories GOLD, Chantilly, Virginia
MusicandMemories GOLD, Chantilly, Virginia
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Remember
For every lesson learned,
Another is forgotten.

A memory, a book,
now replaced by a fact
The memory, the book,
now long forgotten.

The fact is now lost
as you learn a life lesson
It soon floats away
when you meet the next day.

Your new friend’s name
now replaces the day
But the name will escape you,
as other things will.

There’ll be a wisp of a memory,
an image that will fade
And never again will you
remember the whole day.

By the time you are ninety,
you’ll forget Latin one,
science, and math.

Thing you spent years learning,
now have long passed.

We work so hard
to learn new things,
But we fail to see what we lose
when we gain.

We lose our first step,
Our sister’s first word.
A song, a poem,
a moment, a word.

We fail to remember
these beautiful things

In the cracks of our life
and the scheme of all things
For every lesson learned,
another is forgotten.


The author's comments:

Life is a journey. When you arrive at your destination, what will you remember?


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on Jun. 10 2016 at 4:38 pm
juniormint GOLD, Manassas, Virginia
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wow, I don't usually think about this type of thing. so contemplative and thoughtful