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Not a Decision
I learned early
the importance of saving, collecting, keeping.
As if in response (or defiance)
my brain is determined to counter educate me
As if in response (or defiance)
my brain is determined to counter educate me
in loss.
Memories slip away,
names and faces fade,
and though I reach deeply into recesses of thought to
fetch these memories,
no trick or strategy works.
This is a problem,
a puzzle I haven’t the ability to solve
because so many pieces
are inexplicably
gone.
Memories slip away,
names and faces fade,
and though I reach deeply into recesses of thought to
fetch these memories,
no trick or strategy works.
This is a problem,
a puzzle I haven’t the ability to solve
because so many pieces
are inexplicably
gone.
©Mary Lee Hahn, 2017
This is a poem for Laura Shovan's Annual February Writing Project. The words/phrases for this poem
brain
decisions
memory
puzzle
problem
learn
strategy
flexibility
abilities
fetch
originated here.
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