In the End, Does It Matter?

Some things occupy your mind for years and then disappear without an ending.

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I remember the exact room
where I found out
someone had been talking about me.

I remember the chair.

The half finished cup of tea.

The stupid way
I kept looking at my phone
as though it might change
what I had just heard.

I remember thinking,

I will never forget this.

I was wrong.

I have forgotten most of it.

There are things
I once considered enormous
that I now have to search for
inside my own memory.

Names have gone missing.

Arguments have lost their words.

Whole afternoons
have collapsed into nothing.

I spent so much time
protecting certain moments
from being forgotten,