There was a moment

earlier today

when i had so much to say

Munching the crispy flakes

of my high fiber cereal

the sweetness of freeze-dried

berries bursting on my tongue,

my brain alive with things not to forget.

Now, a few hours later, my time has come

to download those things so I may ponder

the many

the future, my self, my past …

but

I’ve forgotten all those shining truths.

I’ve lost the urgency.

Even the memory of red berries isn’t helping

bring the words I was repeating to myself

back

My mother would say “it must have been a lie”

but that isn’t accurate or even remotely true.

I was contemplating such important things, about life and joy

and humanness …

I was on to something.

Either way, those thoughts, those words

are lost forever.

Lost to the vagueness of my memory.

Cheers to breakfast without a pen.

To breakfast without my damn phone.