Aide to a Flailing Memory

In particular calligraphy,

Free from smudges and set petite.

Rest names, places and memories.

The book of the concluding days.

The yellowed and frail pages,

Entrusted

With tales of the decades.

The names mostly monikers of the deceased

And those who have led meandering pathways.

The years chained in the past

Have obscured existence… Forever.

I pledged not to forget you.

I've held you out of harm's way

In my flailing memory.

I want to remember everything

Prior to an expanse obscuring a backward glance,

So stifling the clamor of distraction,

I write your name

In particular calligraphy,

Free from smudges and set petite

Although far from deceased

You are someone

That I cannot let myself forget.