A Love Forgotten Poem by Maya Reid

I’m beginning to think
That it’s not really all that difficult to
Forget
That you love someone,
Or that they love you.
Once it’s an established fact,
Once the L-word has tested positive on both sides,
It doesn’t have to be constantly said
Or proven
And you…
You just might forget it’s there.
Well,
Not forget its whole existence,
Just the extent of it,
How smooth and deep and true it runs.
By the time life before them
Has become a blur
And the honeymoon has long been over,
They’ve blended in with everything else
To form another facet
Of the diamond that is your life
And you don’t really remember
How much you need them.
I think that after you’ve loved someone
For long enough,
You inherently begin to
Take them for granted.
No,
That’s not it…
You just begin to
To forget.
Sometimes you forget
To show that you love them,
Which leads them to forget
That underneath whatever has
Popped up between you,
You really do love them.
Or other times
Love
Has just become such a part
Of your everyday
That it doesn’t need saying
And you stop reminding
And you forget
Just how strong that current is.
So when yes is “of course”
And trust “has always been known”
You can be kind of shocked.
And so I think reminders
Are always needed.
However old, deep, strong, or real it is,
Be it between friends or lovers,
It need always be reminded.
Because once it’s been forgotten
It can be hard to revive the memory.
Once it’s been forgotten
Everything is different
And you don’t know what to do.
And so,
My advice to you is this:
Practice random acts of love.
Remind them
From time to time,
Lest it be forgotten.