My Unofficial Truths

If I lost my memories

If you lost your memory

And I was lost to the depths of your mind

Do you think your heart would remember me?

Would you do a double take,

Not because you thought I looked pretty,

But because something about my eyes

Made a little string tug on your heart

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I think if I lost my memories

And you were lost to the depths of my mind

My heart would remember you.

I think I would do a double take

Not because I thought you looked pretty

But because something about your eyes

Made a little string tug on my heart

If I lost my memory of you

I think I'd see you looking at me

With a dull sadness in your eyes,

That would tug at my heart a little.

And I would know that I've seen that dullness before

Then I'd ask you if I knew you

And you'd look at me intently

Light would start to replace the shadows

With hope.

And something would tug on my heart again.

I'd know that I needed to make you smile

Smile so genuinely that your eyes would sparkle.

And you'd respond back to me with a question that mimicked my own

"Do you know me?"

And I'd whisper

"I don't know"

Then you would mimic me again

"I don't know"

And my heart would skip a beat

Because I'd know this from somewhere

A memory would unlock

And it'd still be fuzzy and hard to remember

But I'd know you.

I'd know that I had known you.

So I'd look you in your eyes

And say

"I do know you!"

And your eyes now full of hope

Would search mine

And I'd look into your eyes

Feeling flustered

So then I look down

Wracking my brain to remember

Holding on to the new memory I unlocked.

Then you gently touch my arms

Asking "hey cute girl, are you okay?"

And I'd suck in a sharp breath.

Because the memory would clear up.

And the next thing I knew

I was remembering a version of you

Looking up at the sky

Smiling

With sparkles in your eyes

And a name suddenly surfaced

"Owen?"

Then I'd look back up and repeat your name with resolve

"Owen"

And you'd smile

With sparkles that lit up your eyes

And you'd smile

With a smile I was so familiar with

And you'd smile

And hold me in your arms

And everything about you would come back.

Every little thing

Every little moment

Everything.

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I'm not worried about losing my memories

I know that they'll never be gone for too long

Because you'll always be there at the end of everything

To tug on my heart

And bring me back