Wow! I loved reading this poem, thanks so much for sharing it, there is so much truth and reality to this.
Memory, and memory loss is and always will be a topic that even science hasn't yet unraveled.
I wish we could have "memory chips" hooked in to our brains, holding all that we wish never to forget.
Till that day comes, sadly we will have to settle for what our individual minds can manage to remember, so many things I find myself forgetting lately and it saddens me.
Funny thing, well to me it was, my grandmother is 95yo, one day she told me when her sisters and her are talking and she doesn't care to talk, she told me she just tells them, "oh I forget. . .", she laughs and said to me, "I really didn't forget, but at 95 I can say that and they will believe me," LOL!!
I said, "grandma, you can use that scheme" but how about someone my age?" LOL!
She said, well that's one of the benefits of getting to my age, 95, people assume a person of that age doesn't remember.
Another moment spent with "gram" to hold in my memory

DE