The Box of Forgotten Things【POETRY】

The Box of Forgotten Things

The Box of Forgotten Things is not real.
Neither are the things you left in it;

They were memories.
They were real,
And because of you
They aren’t possible.

Only Now is real.
Then is a possible Now,
but only if you leave your Box discarded.
Don’t forget.

You are the only one to witness
Every word you have ever said,
but how many can you truly recount?
Don’t forget.

You witness death at every moment, yet
You never realize.
You left them all in the Box of Forgotten Things.

Leave your Box discarded.
Warp your Box of Forgotten Things
into an Archive of Many Nows.
Preserve your Thens.

But… what happens to those dead memories, anyway?
What are you? A collection of them?
Don’t forget.