An Abstract Battle

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You read my book of life,

As if it were a novel.

As if the moments,

Should be contiguous

As is the progression of a life,

But they are not.

Missing sections,

Jumping from a single chapter,

To a dozen later,

And then back again.

In a single stanza,

The years an abstract battle,

Of confusion to unravel.

Each post in fragments scattered,

Each page a story of its own,
Each stanza a song in its own right.

My world... my life...

Each moment buried,
Like a forgotten jewel,

In the mine that is my mind,

In remembrance,

For all time.

—Michele Cameron Drew