Why am I having a hard time-
Remembering
It's starting
The Forgetting, it happens in phases
It's a process
First
You die
As you fall from life to death
You fall into the Lethe
Board the ferry
Pay your fare
And you think
I had a thought
But you forgot
Just forgot
The first stage is the headaches
So it starts
Small details begin to blur
Till the person that you were
Seems so distant
Was that you?
As each memory erases
The photos of familiar faces, smudge and blot
But you won't care a lot
You'll forget you forgot
The second stage you start to forget others
Your friends, your parents
And in the third stage you start speaking in Portuguese
Portuguese?
No one knows why
No it isn't uncommon to
Try to stop it
To fight for your life
Never lose sight of your life
It's tragically normal to jot it down
To write all your life
Everything tied to your life
You make notes in a book
So to fight the Forgetting
You might keep the best things
And omit what's upsetting
But as days pass
You look in your book
Just to find
That the book that your took serves one purpose
To remind you of all
Of the people
You'll never see again
For even when they come
They'll end up just as dumb and then
The last stage
You forget yourself
And suddenly you feel okay
At last it stops
And you toss the book for trash
Or you torch the book to ash
Just like they did
Just like me
And you'll learn like other folks
That life is just a joke
A trick of glass and smoke
A dream from which you
Woke