To Not Be Forgotten

~Courtesy Carrie's desk at work~

Linking with Imaginary Gardens for The Tuesday Platform

~Today is National Handwriting Day.~

So we are celebrating the art of hand-inking our thoughts and feels into words.

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Come join us!

There are thousands of thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen and writes. ~William Makepeace Thackeray

Like soft spoken children they nudge me on the arm

and refuse to be forgotten

getting my attention one way or another

words

they have been a foe

and my faithful friend

an adored lover

and an annoying neighbor

relentless yet true

giving me a chance

to not just speak

but truly be heard

and ultimately strive

to not be forgotten.

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I used to write to not be forgotten

now I write to not forget

I spent years

filling pages upon pages

 with words and thoughts

ideas and rhymes 

hoping to be heard

and I still do

but now

I also have lists

upon lists of things

I need to do

it seems 

that list

never ends.........and

I am in a never ending cycle

of forgetting things on the list.