October 31

An Average Memory

An Average Memory

In Mrs. Virgin’s room I lied

On leather couch, black dyed

As comfy as a cloud in our sky

This ladies and gentlemen is a memory

Now usually they are profound and meaningful

This definitely isn’t. Unless we’re sappy for furniture

Now imagine us as an exhausted teenager. Who am I kidding?

Look into a mirror from time to time, we’ll find they’re right there!

Now imagine walking into Mrs. Virgin’s room. What do we see?

Walls staying strong with yellowed bandages and scars

Projectors humming a new tune to the elderly room

Ah and students; speaking of memories

Collected over our years 

Individual memories

Listen to our peers

Words of emotion

Loud and ferocious

A great commotion

One after another in our sea

Affected by contagious disease

Beginning to make art with our memories

An individual perception of the world; Memories

Why we been assigned to make art with memories unique to us

When we have shared memories with each other for centuries!

Men have come and gone; but our memory remains

Together, we crawled out of the stone age

With marble, we created our domain

We rebuilt it; warnings unheeded

We did so until we exceeded

Our work still uncompleted

Now ladies and gentlemen

We have come to this point

An exhausted specimen

In Mrs. Virgin’s room lied

On leather couch, black dyed

As comfy as a cloud in our sky

And so, we now all share a memory…


Posted October 31, 2019 by Lucius in category Nonfiction Posts, Personal Writing

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5 thoughts on “An Average Memory

  1. kmurrey

    I really like how you brought it all together by repeating “In Mrs. Virgins room lied, on leather couch, black dyed”, I also like the rhyme there.

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  2. nicole

    I really like how you decided to put your memory into poem form, it shows how you perceive the memory and adds individualism.

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  3. Nataly Wilson

    I love the repetition and how you took us with you and created a memory that we could all relate to. The Formatting was a really good details >:)

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  4. nicole

    i really like how you put your story into poem form, it shows how you perceive the story and it also adds individualism.

    Reply

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