by Steven Okanlawon
If only we can forget
Then there’’ll be no regret
If only we cannot remember
Then we’’ll have a sweet December
If only we can forget some moments
Heartbreaks won’t bring us torments
If we can’t recall the battle
We won’t feel the pain of cattle
If everything ends only at sight
Rumours will never cause a fight
If painful memories could vanish at once
We’’ll all live like daughters and sons
If a child, adults have abused
How then will said youth be of use?
Truly we can forgive
But memories stretch as we live
To forget dead loved ones, we try
Yet we wake up at night and still cry
So many things we try to forget
because pain is what they beget
But really if events can’t be stored
Life itself would be such a bore
If we don’t learn from the loss
How do we become the boss?
Left and right, night and day
The creator made things that way
All we do is wish and hope
But the answer lies in learning to cope
…And with time as our healer
We’ll conquer this mind enigma.
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Steven Okanlawon is a final year sociology student of the University of Ibadan. He loves reading, writing, making friends, swimming and more reading.
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