Ever since I was little, I cherished the concept of a memory.
I was taught that things are forgotten if you let yourself forget.
Blocking out the bad only makes you forget what your real feelings were at the time.
Good is good, but bad is also good.
When I started losing time, growing older, forgetting the past, I made sure to hold on to as much as I could.
I held on to the day my mother promised me she would never get a divorce, I held on to the time my father cried at the steering wheel with me because she left him, I held on to the time where all I wanted to do was kill myself.
But I also remember the good. I remember swimming wit
Ever since I was little, I cherished the concept of a memory.
I was taught that things are forgotten if you let yourself forget.
Blocking out the bad only makes you forget what your real feelings were at the time.
Good is good, but bad is also good.
When I started losing time, growing older, forgetting the past, I made sure to hold on to as much as I could.
I held on to the day my mother promised me she would never get a divorce, I held on to the time my father cried at the steering wheel with me because she left him, I held on to the time where all I wanted to do was kill myself.
But I also remember the good. I remember swimming wit
Elephants, coffeepots and second chances by AlwaysRainCheck, literature
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Elephants, coffeepots and second chances
I remember that conversation we had
about the meaning of eternity
how long
how long can it last
one single blade
of grass
one fragile
snowflake.
Even your smile
shining at me from a picture
looks different everyday
I remember the clouds
that morning
how you saw an elephant,
how we laughed
because to me it was clearly
a coffeepot.
But in the end
even the addicted pachyderm
disappeared
like our laughs
like our promises,
everything lasted enough for a memory
though
enough for us.
I don't know
how can I ask you
a single day now
if an elephant
stands between us
if last time we talked
you weren't there.
Among withered grass,
water,