Distant Echoes (July 30, 2016)

Can still hear

Mom and dad

Shouting

At each other.

Guilt fills 

My 6 years old

Soul.

Like

I am responsible

For their verbal fight

That happening

Before me.

Even now

Almost 4 decades 

Later.

The guilt

Still haunts me.

As tears 

Threat to overflow

My tear ducts.

Gushing forth

Like Niagara Falls

Regardless

Of my location

In a public area.

Leaving me

Brimming with curses

At my long term memory

And its ability

To retain them.

Wishing for

Total amnesia

Of any long term

Memory.

Failing that

Then

Death.

Therisa © 2016

Author's note: For more years, than I care to remember, my long term memory has been able to retains events that I would rather have erased. One of the huge disadvantage of this, is a "Swiss" cheese like short term memory, which I have forgotten numerous conversations, after I or the other person has left. As a teenager, my mom stopped asking me, to get anything from the downstairs pantry, as I would forget her request, by the time, I got to the pantry.