Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Memory

Memory is the craftiest one of them all
covering and twisting and stirring
according to the wants of the maker

It slides and rocks and blends
along the colored views you see through
matching the forward hopes to be had

It is in the pictures, the thoughts and the letters
in the clingy squinty attempts to re-insert oneself
into old thoughts, moments and gestures

It is distant beyond distance
not a place you’d see casually on a screen
and could imagine, even in your own surroundings

It is the warm tan that fades
the space between who you are and who you show
in the light blue that twilights

It is in every choice
whether yours or someone else's
whether well-thought or arbitrarily coincidental

Memory!

It leads you to be exactly what you are!

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