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.