Selective Amnesia

Please tell me 

Help me understand

Why I can’t remember

Conversations of yesterday

Outfits from last week 

Memories of months past 

But I remember

How the wind tasted last Tuesday

The sunset from February 17th

The cardinal I witnessed one gray morning 

The pattern of rain drops on the front step

They way your eyes twinkled

When your lips spoke of things 

That fascinate you beyond this world

The sharpness of my teeth on my own lips 

As I hoped I were one of them 

The glow of the light on skin

The night we said hello for the first time

Perhaps it’s not that I have a bad memory

Maybe I just remember what I think 

Is important 

And worth remembering 

-j.p