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So many years have quickly passed
Each seven we begin anew
Our cellular forms will not outlast
The schism where our feelings grew
Your face is but dim memory
May well be changed now too, and yet
I find I must control my thoughts
So I remember to forget
And what we were was but a dream
Such bodies now no longer live
Another lifetime separates
And kills the need to just forgive
Our exertions to be free of this
Are bathed in honour’s toil and sweat
But still the illness sweetly lingers
We must remember to forget
The butterflies that we once were
Are pinned to history’s pallid walls
Cocoons now separate our hearts
To briefer, newer lives we’re called
This transformation has its price
But we will find its beauty yet
If you and I can here agree
To remember to forget
(c) Helen Valentina 2014, All Rights Reserved
helenvalentina 
the reminder
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such unique
articulation
Thank you!! 🙂 🙂
Bravo. Yes I continue to remember to forget.
Thank you!! 🙂
I try to remember to forget, but I always seem to forget to remember to do it… J/K. I like the metamorphosis in the last stanza (I don’t get to say that every day…). 🙂
Thanks so much!! 🙂
Beautiful Helen.
Thank you!! 🙂
Very nice Helen!
Thanks Elaine!! 🙂