"Retrograde Amnesia"
I wish I had amnesia’s grace To wipe her name from every place To wake and not recall her face Or how her laugh would fill the space To walk through rooms we used to share And feel no ghosts still waiting there To pass the mirror, calm, composed Not haunted by the life I chose They say forgetting steals the flame But memories just fan the same They light the match, then walk away And leave you in the ash and grey I’d lose the scent of midnight rain That always drags her back again Erase the street, erase the sky Where once we learned to say goodbye I’d strip the poems from my skin The ones she stitched so deep within Forget the nights I couldn’t breathe And every vow I can’t retrieve She taught me love like sacred fire Then turned to smoke and climbed it higher I knelt in hope, she stood divine But gods don’t shiver when you pine I made her holy in my chest But love like that won’t let you rest It carves your soul with every breath And slowly rhymes itself with death I wish I had amnesia’s hand To pull me from this sinking sand To take the words she left behind And wash them from my weary mind If someone asked who broke me so I’d shrug, and simply never know No ache behind a smiling face No echo I would still embrace When I see homes left torn and bare I see myself still standing there The walls are cracked, the paint is dry But no one ever asks me why No windows left to show the light No doors to hold the dark at night Just silence dressed in shadow's thread And hope that softly plays dead I wish I had amnesia's touch To feel a little, not too much To drift without a name to call To never rise, nor ever fall Forget the song she used to hum The way my hands would come undone Forget the look, the loss, the flame Forget I ever spoke her name Forget I begged her just to stay Forget she chose to walk away Forget the prayers, forget the cost Forget the depth of what I lost So if forgetting brings me peace Then let these haunted memories cease Let every rhyme she gave to me Be drowned beneath amnesia’s sea And when they ask what tore me through I’ll smile like I never knew No cracks inside, no scars above Just one who simply lost his love










