"Remember" (Original Poem)
A candle with a scent so familiar and nostalgic but ambiguous, elusive. Where did it come from? What subconscious memory is elicited by such a faint cue? Among the obligations of life, the memory slips away, lost and made preclusive and I surrender to never recalling the prompt of this momentary déjà vu. A draft of breeze wafts by, carrying with it a faint essence of a long-forgotten day. Here a second, gone the next, disappearing before my senses place the faint reminder What occasion was tagged to that smell? I search my mind, but the memory has slipped away and I carry on, creating and logging new moments in my brain's memory binder Once in a blue moon, the memory to which such a fleeting stimulus is connected resurfaces from my subconscious and floods me with such rekindled joy for a time past that I wonder if I knew at the time that the date would leave me so deeply affected or if I realized the experience would, in my soul, be preserved and forever last This conc...
