memory

I have a short memory. Everything beyond the present fades away like ion collisions in a vacuum chamber... into nothingness, very, very fast.

If it isn't here, it's gone.

It makes me want to take journals, write notes, make sure I don't LOSE anything precious, because everything's precious, if you think about it hard enough.

Yet I don't, I don't do it, and everything fades.
To everyone I've lost touch with, from months past and years past and decades past, I'm sorry. I hope you don't take it personally, although you undoubtably should.

I apologize for my short memory. My deep memory has not forgotten any of you, if although it doesn't allow for the details, I get the blank images of people from lives past.

I haven't really, really forgotten any of you.