How To Forget Poem by tej Singh

For some things it takes a great deal of remembering

To forget about thinking things you no longer want

To remember.

The terrible days that stalk you

Will always do so.

They have such a hold on your heart

It is impossible to let them go.

For those the only solace Is to bury them beneath a trust in new experiences.

The hurts of love you thought you would not live through

Have already proved weak each time you draw a breath.

It is the smaller things, slights, humiliations, disappointments

That live so close to the heart’s life they can only

Be forgiven.

They can’t be forgot but grow smaller

Every day you grow into the person you really are.

But the easiest of things to forget, you never notice

They are missing from your memory until too late.

They are the things that will hurt the most because

They were best parts of your lives, you never imagined

You would forget.


K. A. Brace