Love Poem: Memories
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Written by: Liza Britton

Memories

I’m forgetting how to drag these worthless thoughts
 
Through broken and grasping fingertips.
 
Empty is my mind, and yet
 
I struggle to rip away the strangling
 
Emotions that leave me breathless.
 
Repugnantly my contention simply dissipates
 
with the thought of you.
 
Memories of what was and what is
 
clash like fire and ice.
 
It burns more than anything imaginable.
 
I franticly search through the convex parts of my mind
 
hoping to find relief.
 
Abhorrently I find none.
 
The feelings that I worked so hard to get rid of
 
come back.
 
 Memories and faded Love breaks
 
through the barricade I work so hard to build
 
and all that I am abruptly
 
turns into all that I was.
 
 I scream as the memories pierce into
 
the place that took so long to heal.
 
The place where abandonment
 
and pain are still  fresh.
 
The place that once openly held
 
Love, Trust, comfort and......
 
A heart.
 
Now holds nothing but pain sorrow and regret.
 
Alone I am, yet not
 
The memories are here to keep me company.
 
Your promise is here to give me the reminder of
 
your lies and your touch is here to give me pain.
 
Vivid they are, yet so faded
 
each kiss is a bite
 
each touch is a punch
 
each word is fire and ice.
 
But this isn't what angers me the most
 
This isn't what brings all the pain.
 
The fact that you're still here.
 
The fact that despite all my best efforts
 
to Forget you I can't.
 
Despite all the pain,
 
All the lies.
 
What angers me the most is the fact that
 
I still Love you.
 
I forgot how to drag these worthless thoughts

through, broken and grasping fingertips

Just as I forgot how not to Love you.-