I ran across this poem buried in my Google Docs and I have no memory of writing it. It's strange. I found myself reading it as if someone else wrote it. I know it's mine--I checked the edits. I wrote it on September 8, 2019. ( I hope the man of 2019 doesn't mind the edits of the man of 2023 prepping it for this blog) I cannot tell who or what is the object of the speaker's apostrophe. Who is the you? I don't know. I have imbibed of the the waters of the Lethe while yet living--a sign of things to come if I follow my parents footsteps. No matter. Coming into existence eventually no longer depends on memories stored in the time-space brain which decays at death. The poem, like me, is not worth remembering. We are breaths--breaths of life. We fill a body, we leave a body. I have peace with that. Compulsion Just what it is, I do not know, That draws me to you. A bright star? But it is not your gravity....
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