Memory dissolves life events
or freezes them in time
or floods them with confusion
or drowns them in denial
Memory can chip away at conscience
can harden the heart
can burden the brain
can strangle the soul
Memory will retrieve
remind
review
re-enact life events
Or Memory loses
limits
alters
ignores life events
Until #MeToo
when Memory recovers
a life event in stunning clarity
who-what-when-where-how
Acknowledge & accept it? Yes
Write about it & share? Yes
Forgive myself? Yes
Forgive him? Never
Leslie
Poignant and powerful.
Word choice was perfect.It HAD to be accepted.
BRAVA
Joyce
I agree with Joyce, Leslie! Wonderful thoughts on the nature of memory and so accurate regarding how a #Me Too memory could be buried in one’s consciousness for years before one felt safe enough to let it emerge, be examened, and voiced. You rocked the topic!
Thank you Writers Joyce and Nancy—my poetry and prose comrades!