Remember

I remember you as I remember

how a cloud floats away

with the car’s speed:

I saw you and then I forgot your shape.

You waste me away and

I don’t care that I still know your name.

For how long have I known you as

the bug from which I need to

bleach my sheets,

scrub my scalp,

burn my skin just to escape?

I’m embarrassed by you.

They pull me apart and see

your face laughing at my depths.

So hard I try, you follow me

every

step.

To be frank, I don’t care who you

were to me.

Our plans made meaningless with your belongings.

But still, no one told me you would

pester me so relentlessly.

You define my lack of memory.

And still, you’re embedded in every shape.