romantises memorious

It is easy to forget

4am milkshakes.

it is easy to forget

free falls towards

a play doh ball

of sunset blues and

cotton candy clouds

where an airplane has

no seats and

no doors

Because the passengers

make their own

choices

about how they want to

fly

Until the parachute is

pu

ll

ed

and

reality surges the

electric bubble gum

underneath their

shoes

As they land with a

Thump

on the concrete ground

of a mercurial world

where

they must remember that

actions paint the

canvas of human life

and

emotions

are the pencil etchings underneath

that tend to get

e r a s e d

along with the happy memories

that get tainted

by

rainy days

and soggy tents

housing two wide-eyed teenagers

just now learning that

nothing is

complete

and

a person is not

like an etch-a-sketch

that can forget

the smudged drawings that

crafted her as a work of

Art

and a Work

In Progress

because she

takes one step

and the other

is already beginning

and time

is a metered constant

of a not-so-constant life

that she’s not likely to

Forget