I'm scared to forget somebody.
Especially somebody I love
Somebody who has felt good or great
No matter my own emotional state
I'm scared to forget somebody
Because I'm scared to be forgotten.
Why would we be here if not to remember
Our selves that laugh & pray
Our selves that always include all ways
Our cells that combine starshine & clay
Our sails that catch winds from waters far away
We could be here all day
Being beautiful
& someone somewhere will whisper to me "Remember"
I'm scared to forget somebody
Like it I do so Imma lose a piece of God
It's one thing for life to make me do it
It's one thing for the cold spite of evil to take a bite
It's another thing entirely
For me to drop it carelessly
& keep walking as it it didn't exist
I'm scared to forget somebody
& remember I carry water
I carry a lot of water
Drops of ocean souls collected
& carried on my back
I love my people, my loved ones,
My lovers & friends & family
& with all this abundant momentum
Thru Moments of love & rain & joy & pain
It hurts to feel how I hurt someone in ever so small
& significant a way as forgetting their name their face their story.
Their dreams & nightmares & all the ways they care
I'm scared to forget somebody
Because I care
Just as I am grateful for feeling full of greatness,
l am careful by feeling full of care.
& yet I am not God
But a drop of God
I cannot stare forever at our waters
& expect to control what evaporates.
I can be hold the ocean soul
Not be holding the ocean whole
I can trust my self as a body of water
Within a body of water
Within a body of water
That even when we get hotter
& expand & evaporate
We always return to the source.
Who’s meant to be here will be here
in Whatever medium, we meant to be in
With whatever message we meant to send & receive
I'm scared to forget somebody
As someone who has forgotten a good one
& has been a forgotten good one
& yearns for forgiveness forgiving
After so much forgetting.
I’m starting to become someone
Who is graceful by feeling full of Grace
So next time my heart sprints like l'm in a race
Remind me to take a deep breath
& return to the pace of this marathon.
I'm scared to forget somebody
When l'm more focused on the last mile than the next step
When I'm more focused on my rep than my reach
To the beach
To behold the beautiful clear blue truth
That with Trust in You
Everyone & everything we forget
We will remember since we been knew.
Beautiful bro
Thanks Marc!🙏🏽🫶🏽