This is a poem that I wrote for my creative writing class in my first semester of college. We were told to write a free verse poem and I wasn't sure what to write. So I ended up deciding to write about my memories. I didn't write about any specific memory, but more about how forgetful I am and how I'm always forgetting things that are important or could help me in the long run. I have so many things that frustrate me because I can't remember something about them that I used to know. Those feelings went into this poem.

Memories

It hard to keep track of thoughts when they

Cut off. Chunk

By chunk. Where does one

Start and another

End. A storm swirls and

Calms. Thoughts disappear and

I'm left with nothing. It hurts

That I can't remember

The simplest things. Nothing

Seems to be able to stick in

My memories. Nothing is

Important enough to

Stay there for too long.

Soon the world will fade

Away and I will even forget

Myself.