Remember To Forget. Poem by Leah Ayliffe

I know there are creatures taking care of my steps,
Trying to whisper through the core of my soul to my mind
All the wonders that await if I just set myself free of peoples constraint.
I am reminded how I once lived this way.
I feel their magic and guidance, the little giggles in the moments I latch on to their waves.
I will follow into the forest, to the stream of dreams in everything that is yet to be.
Breathing the air I have been suffocating without for some time,
Air pure as heaven, found walking on the gold trail to the meadow
Where doves and cherry trees express what it means to be love.
I would go home and shut myself off,
A prisoner of my own command.
This is not who I am.
I am love. I am dreams coming true.
I am happiness, and kindness, and a hot summer's day by the ocean.
Fun in the sunshine laughing just for you.
I am Christmas lights at night, tending to your pretty thoughts against the cold falling snow.
I am the coffee in the early hours, alive just to keep you up.
My little creatures tell me time and time again,
And yet some force poisons me to forget.
This is not the world, my world. Your world.
This is not real.
But neither am I.
When I drift with the breeze, and fly like the sparks from a fire,
When I am dust in the wind.
When I am no longer needed to care for the tragedies of humankind.
I will be me, I will find home once again.
Let me be free to die happily as nothing extraordinary
But another soul trying to break free of the body.
Let me be free to never know the end,
To keep my path lit with fireflies, but the future in the distance of time remains unknown.
And I don't want to know. That's when it gets too be too hard to survive.
I don't want to know. So I won't. I won't take to the crystal ball and try to create a vision, a destiny.
I will live without restraint. I will live to love until there is nothing left.
And then we're gone, just to begin again.