Faded memories

Memories

An autobiography

Written in disappearing ink

Charted events and beliefs

All laid out in synaptic link

Corrupted images

So easy to deceive

Changing histories

And profoundly altering

The things you need to believe

An image in view

That can only ever be true

For you

But one that fades

So you can never trust

Those synaptic bonds

As truth crumbles to dust

…………. Memories lie

They create their own seed

That grows and spreads

And tells you what it thinks you need

Shares history’s light

But ultimately leaves you blind

Fumbling in the dark

For what you might find

…………… Memories burn

They fire imagination

And lay waste to uncertainty

Then leave you unsure

With a bitter taste

As they become their own entity

…….. Memories

Which were once a guide

A personal sage

Lost in the degradation

On a self-written page

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Billy ’22