POEM STARTER

Submitted by Maranda Quinn

The Burden of Memory

Write a poem that could have this as its title.

My Wound

I think I tried to forget

Cause if I remembered all of the things that you did

I might be even more broken than I am now

So I probably tried to forget

What it was like to watch her leave

Probably, maybe


Or maybe I was just too young

Yeah, it's probably that actually

Still trauma does not just go away

It cannot really be avoided

And so maybe I got a different flavor

Than the one you carry


I don't know which of us is better off

I only know that you hurt, too

You hated her back then

Love her more than him now

And most of us feel the same


And I've got this wound deep in my chest

Don't really know where I got it from

I've heard whispers of its origin

Soft melodies that recount its story

But I don't remember it

How could I?


I think it probably hurts more

To have the wound

And not know where it's from

Than to remember

Maybe memory isn't

a burden

It is what

completes us

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