Every Poem is an Aged Memory

1 Explosive cacophony
2
3 (just as you exist 
4 in the fragments of my mind)
5
6 echoes, 
7 reverberating 
8 in the other room.
9
10 (You just 
11 keep banging on those keys, 
12 and I keep 
13 silently wishing 
14 for I know not what.)
15
16 In the repercussions 
17 and remnants
18 of what I can now 
19 remember, 
20 I pretend 
21
22 shared meaning exists.
23 Even though I am alone 
24 and want to be 
25 here for another hour, 
26 I hear him talking 
27 to children in my head,
28 so I get up.
29
30 (There your mother is 
31 twirling in her morning gown
32 with light 
33 from the windows giving 
34 an 
35 imaginary 
36 aesthetic
37 of colors
38 from a prism.
39
40 She will save you, Child! 
41 She will save us!)
42
43 I remember
44 we live in my mind,
45 so he disappears,
46 and I walk into her arms 
47 and rustle 
48 like a critter 
49 in the hedges. 
50
51 (Do not turn on the light. 
52
53 Do not get out of bed.)
54
55 I am scared 
56 the pots and pans
57 will start again,
58 and I just want 
59 the quiet 
60 with her.
61
62 (She will save us.
63
64 She will save us
65 from the mixed bag
66 of ancestry
67 that is left
68 to be held
69 in a half-remembered
70 memory.)  

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