Now

Memory

Your failure to show up

When I need you

Scares me

Who am I without you?

Memory

Please

Don't go away

Memory

Your insistence on constantly recalling things gone by

Wears me down

For how can I move on

Become the me I aspire to be

If you keep on beating the same old drum?

Memory

Please

Don't stay

But don't go away either...

Perhaps I should say

Memory

Don't feel you must go

Don't feel you must stay

But please, do feel

By tuning into who I am

Now

How best to bestow your gifts upon me