I Forget to Remember

If I can ever forget you.
Let me not.
This will be the last poem I will write of you.
Let me thereafter, forget.

I walk briskly through familiar streets
I want to remember it all again
To know, to feel
To know you again the way I used to.

Your claims of me are empty
Your memories of me are rehearsed
And I find you all a lie,
You are therefore, futile.
Let me forget you at once!

But a vague memort crosses me
A small tune playing, a faint scent
It was your mouth
And I am pulled in once again
Oh God I remember!
Dear God, let me forget!

White winds paint a picture
The color green, the color gray
The colors of a life once lived
The life I cling to by a single thread
With one tug, it can break
Love, you are fragile
I will forget.

And though the familiar tunes of a love once lived
Will always bring me back to you
The only way I can have this, is to forget you.

My love, love, I forget, to remember to love.
To love you again.

-Noemi Garcia

Inspired by Sohpie Kinsella's Remember Me?