Cruel Memory

The past in all its permutations

The loss of word

Friends who should have been kept

Friends who were tossed away

Temporary loves

Long term loves

The never loved and wanted to love

The punches of regret

Things wanted to be forgotten return

Things wanted to be remembered disappear

Ripples of time that change memories

once truth become lies

then lies become truth

Cruel memory is a criminal

that murders what we think

and destroys what we are

from then on

Barry G. Wick