Memory

what is it that needs remembering
today that can never be forgotten
that requires some concentration of the mind
the cortex flexing to engrave the image
or the idea or the action or the word
that sums the total of all of it
filtered and funnelled
into the letters: the L and the P
or the vowels: E or O,
the symbols of the things themselves
recalled on some sad Monday night
when nothing makes sense:
out pops the memory, the thing itself
suddenly recalled and the feelings
the smells and the weight of being
alive through scars and hurt all
of it remembered to learn
and become again.