Forgotten

I think of all I remember
And all I have forgotten
I promised to remember you…
Forever…
But it’s so hard, when you’re no longer here
To remind me to remember you.
Slowly, you’re fading from my mind.
I remember you…
If only as parts of the whole…
Your voice, once clear to me,
Has been lost…
What do you sound like now…?
Your face, which I said I would remember forever…
My memories of it are gone…
You look generic to me now…
Would I recognize you if you were right in front of me?
I can remember that we were close…
We did so much together.
But… what?
What did we do…?
I… can’t remember anymore…
The secrets we shared…
Gone from me…
Do you remember mine?
You probably do…
Your name…
The key to who you were to me…
Why does it now slip my mind?
Where are you now, that I can refresh you in my mind?
Where have you gone...?
I don’t remember…
I remember all we did together.
I remember you, though as a figure.
My memories are but an empty frame of who you were.
My memories are hollow.
I remember nothing of the actual you now…
What of my knowledge is grounded in fact…?
I’m no longer sure…
If you really ever were.
Were you just my mind…?
Do you simply fill a gap in my life…?
You were real… weren’t you?
You still are real… aren’t you?
I can’t remember…
I’ll hold to my memory…
Though I now doubt your existence…
Are you a fabrication of my mind?
But… you are reality…
I remember it all…
It is all in my mind…
You’re all in there… somewhere…
These memories are real…
They couldn’t be false…
It is all clear in my mind…
My memories…
There are so many…
They must be real…

…Right?