Forgetting Your Face Poem by Maya Hanson

Not over you, not under yet
though the water's looking good
I'm starting on the slippery slope of
forgetting your face

The strings have started
to tear and unravel-
which I expected, they were
loosely threaded after all

Now you're just a sentence
or two or maybe a conversation
I can't reach you, you've dropped
a weight on my hands

Now you're just a pair of eyes,
going through your own hell
on the other side of the world
Now you're just a star breather

I've cried with remembering
but it's having no memories left
having to live and learn over again
that scares me to death

I'm drenched again but
this time I'm soaked with hatred
and how a quarter smile could
shake the whole world

Now you're just a sentence
or two or maybe a conversation
I can't reach you, you've dropped
a weight on my hands

Now you're just a pair of eyes,
going through your own hell
on the other side of the world
Now you're just a star breather

The bridges you built in my head
are shifting underground with all the
old songs I knew that are always
on my tongue but won't fall

I cling to the slippery slope of
faking lives and foolish reasons
but I know it's inevitable
forgetting your face