There Is Too Much To Remember Poem by Shalom Freedman

There is too much to remember
No one can remember it all
Forgetting is everywhere
All the time
But what we need to forget
We cannot
And what we most want to remember
We do not
We are fools of ourselves
And failures in our mind
We wrongly forget
And wrongly remember
And do not understand even
Who we are
And what our lives have been about
There is too much to remember
And too much has been forgotten
And we who remember now
Will one day soon
Not even be able to forget.