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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