I Shall Forget You Too

Why would you emerge from
the darkness I built around me
with lambent steps taken grandiloquently
unafraid of the ardent revulsion
I shackled myself into?

When from the shadows you danced
and dragged me into the road
where everything can go -
where we can move, be moved
and leave like how everything
in our star-crossed lives always do

How could I miss this?

And now, in this serpentine road
where the fallen soul was resurrected
the wistful clouds enshrouds me again
to cover the wringing torment of loneliness

I do not need to cover my face
because I am out of shame and fear,
everything before me is stirring clear,
everything before you is coming clean

I can't quite fathom how
one forgets when the other does
but with all my clandestine pensiveness
I shall try to forget you too
not for the sake of revenge
but for the volition of peace for us
in the idea of justice

poem by Norman Santos
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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