POEM STARTER

Submitted by Maranda Quinn

The Burden of Memory

Write a poem that could have this as its title.

The Burden of Memory

Warning: child abuse








Memory,

Is when I lay my head at night;

Cold, wet, salty,

Like a corpse drowned

Silently at the dead of night.


Memory,

Is the corpse of

Six year old me.



Memory,

Is the remnants of my childhood innocence,

So mercilessly shattered,

And so furtively ushered:

“Don’t tell anyone.”

So I swallow the shards,

Heart dripping with blood.



Memory,

Is what I want to forget,

But can’t

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