Memories We Need Poem by Shaakiera Schroeder

To remember is easy…forgetting, is the hard part.
If only it was as effortless to forget…how simple life would be.
Memories linger long after our ANGELS are gone!
We pray and pray for seconds of relief…because it hurts to remember but refuse to let go and allow it to fade away…
We hold on like drowning people clutching lifelines.
As the days fly by…the years we leave behind…
Our memories still fresh…
Polished and shine…
Treated like precious possessions ….
Gifts, every one…
One of its kind.
But then it is a gift…its all we really have left.
The only light in this dark…
Our sole comfort from this pain…
The smile…through our tears.
I heard death described as Bittersweet…
Bitter in its pain…but sweet in the salvation and promise of life eternal…
Sort of like the memories…we keep.
Even though we try to forget…to make life more endurable…
The truth is that without our memories…we would not survive!
So when we push it to the back of our conscience …we struggle and a battle rages….
Our minds may forget…but our hearts…
Our hearts will hold on …to the end of time!

Shaakiera Schroeder
<11/05/10>