The Words Left Unsaid-Poems

Amnesia

I wish I could forget about you as fast as you forgot about me

it feels like you just wiped me from your memory

like marker off a whiteboard

I didn't get that kind of kindness

your name

your smile

it's all etched into me 

like carvings in a tree made by some lonely kid's pocket knife

I wish I could forget the ways I hurt you

in the way that you did

but there's no turning back

there's no rekindling of a bonfire thrown into the water

and who would want it to be ablaze anyways?