i forgot to remember

Alayna Doyal
1 min readJun 5, 2024
Photo by Thomas Bormans on Unsplash

i forgot to remember i can never forget you. i left you

in a standstill back in twenty-sixteen and i’m twenty-four

now but i thought about you on your twenty-third. on the

third of your birth month, i remembered that i forgot it

was your birthday the day before, and it was not until the

day after yours that i forgot i used to remember. i don’t

remember you in ways that make sense. i forget you

until the timing is most inconvenient. time is the least

convenient. what if i want to propel myself to the year we

met so i can remember how magical being alive felt with

you? initially. what if i want to forget the months that

transcended into hell upon earth? eventually. what if i

want to forget to remember that i writhed on concrete

tiles when i forgot to remember the shape of your

silhouette? perpetually. i keep remembering that i will

never forget you.

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