Jun 8, 2021
MEMORY FLOOD
Simple enough a geological video
Of Lake Tahoe where I escaped
From reality for a few years
Needed to catch up with mhself
Geology is one of those
Too many things I’m interested in
A sudden flood of memories
Some with emotions attached
Screamed across that part
Of my brain responsible for that
Overwhelmed right now
A slide show run amuck
Flitting scene after scene
I wanted to linger but they
Only had fifteen minutes
A geological class project no doubt
UC Davis a college you’ve never heard of
There were the memories remembered
Memories I forgot then this rush
Of feelings and emotions
I was there emotionally
All of the thoughts and beliefs
The incubating desires wants needs
Of the person I wanted to be
And am sort of I did fulfill
Some of those dreams
Kept some of the promises
Checked off more boxes than
I thought I could but still have some
Didn’t sell out
More like didn’t fit in
With the ideals of the real world
I saw trails I had hiked
And ones I still want to
Felt loves had lost and missed
That girl on Pope Beach
I still think about
The friends I had and still do
I don’t know why I ever left
To be here I suppose
That’s it fulfilling doing
The rest of your life
Kind of thing
