Memory's Burden - #W3 #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity @YvetteMCalleiro

Hello, beautiful readers! I hope you all are having a wonderful weekend. Mine has been filled with different events with friends. I am blessed to have several different friend groups that enjoy getting together and having fun. It refills my energy cup after an exhausting week.

Today, I am participating in Wea've Written Weekly's Prompt #235. Dennis invites us to write a poem about an abstraction as if it could think, speak, and act for itself. He asked us to consider what it might say or how might it behave. I decided to personify memory. I read once that teachers have over 1,000 thoughts a day while teaching. It's exhausting. I also know that my memory is faulty. So, I thought it would be fun to give my memory her own personality.

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Memory's Burden

exhausted

that's what I am

your constant input of 

unimportant information

makes keeping my filing cabinet

neat and organized

impossible

I attempted to keep moments

preciously grouped by

date and importance

but you overwhelm my synapses with

useless details

I tried going digital

to keep up with the times

to increase my space

but that made things worse

now information is being lost

to the deep crevices of our brain

before I can tag the file

for easy retrieval

I can't keep up

and you blame me for your inability

to remember past events

you show no gratitude

for my exhausting efforts

to keep you functioning

to the best of my ability

At this point

I give up

I'm going on vacation

and the new files can find their own

happy place to land

most of the input will be

useless, random crap

not worthy of filing anyway

so good luck

figuring it all out without me

maybe when I get back

you'll appreciate me a bit more

that is,

if you even notice

I've left

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