POEM STARTER

Submitted by Maranda Quinn

The Burden of Memory

Write a poem that could have this as its title.

you look so unhappy

you look so unhappy

there’s a scar on your thigh

i saw it there the night

i first saw you get high

but i guess it got worse

since i last saw you

because now it consumes

everything you do

the chain around your neck

and a hawaiian shirt on

micro dosing yourself

so your sadness is gone

tattoos where your body

hasn’t quite healed

trying to cover the damage

you tried to have revealed

you came to me one night

deep in my dreams

called out my name

but it was just on my screen

i’ve forgotten your body

forgotten your voice

like you want to forget

your sharp painful choice

you’ve made so many mistakes

just like i did trusting you

a knife can get into your skin

but you won’t let me through?

i know you’re miserable

thinking about you i am too

but smoking ten packs a day

makes me glad i dont know you

you may not think about me

or care as much as i do

but in my heart i know

that i never truly knew you

that chain around your neck

you’ve never looked more crappy

and your hawaiian shirt on

you look so unhappy

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