We live in the Unforgetting World
Unforgetting
You hear the word
you ask what it means
A man in a dress tells you it means
we never forget our attachments
What’s an attachment, you wonder
as your background in sales leads you to believe
it’s an item you attach to your primary sale
in essence, you should upsell three attachments
with each cell phone (case, cable, warranty)
There are no guarantees,
the man in the robes says
except that you won’t forget
your attachments
You learn:
Attachment is the mind that exaggerates
the positive qualities of an object
(attachment loves ignoring red flags)
attachment spins a deceitful fairy tale:
it claims the object is the source of your happiness
And we believe this tall tale
despite all contradicting evidence
we love to ignore evidence
when it does not corroborate our stories
You walk away
You begin to forget
what the wise man said
almost immediately
You think:
I am forgetting
I must live in the forgetting world
I have forgotten what I ate for breakfast
I have forgotten what I did yesterday
god only knows what I did last month
I only remember things I’ve labelled special
I only remember what I’ve done
in accordance with its repetition
When you ask me who I love,
I say friends and family
because they are familiar, and the answer
is engraved on our hearts over lifetimes, infinite
I have forgotten almost everything about my life
who I was, who I’ve been, the characters I’ve played
and the friends I used to have
All I have is the present
and if I think about what I can remember
at any given moment
it is my attachments
It seems it is the only thing
I can remember
Like some sick joke on our weak human minds
that a mental factor could purport such wicked lies
and how could we not remember that
we’ve fallen into such traps before!?
How can we keep forgetting
we are betrayed forevermore?
Until the cycle, the pattern ends
until disrupted, samsara bends
and finally breaks
You remember the man,
in the dress, in the robes
he gave you a liberating gift
an opportunity to see the truth
By seeing differently and remembering
I am ever unforgetting
The Unforgetting World (podcast)
The Halfwit Writer 