Another Chance Poem by ivor or ivor.e hogg

I can recall nothing at all.
My mind is like a pristine page,
it’s rather sad but comical
I do not know my name or age.

I am aware that I’m a man.
I recognise the common things
I try to recall what I can
and each new day some fresh fact brings.

I think that I must have a wife
because I wear a wedding ring.
Some fog blots out my former life.
I can’t remember anything.

Perhaps I have a family
I wrack my brains but all in vain.
It seems no one is missing me.
My doctors say I may regain

My memory in increments.
This does not really comfort me
I don’t believe in such portents.
Between themselves they can’t agree.

I think my loss is permanent
Perhaps this is a second chance
to start afresh by accident.
As in some story book romance.

My tally sheet has been wiped clean.
I have no baggage from my past
I don’t know what I might have been.
I only know that time has passed.

Since I was who I used to be
I have become a different man
I will have to wait and see
and do the very best I can.

To make a success of my life
A golden opportunity.
I have maybe escaped from strife
what I become is up to me.

This cause me no great distress
I have grown used to being me.
The me I am now I must stress
not the me I used to be.

The man I was does not exist
he vanished with my memory.
Although some memories persist
I can choose who I want to be.

25-Sep-06