- from the magazine The
Psychotherapy NetWorker
Loneliness
Not To Be Forgotten
- by
Maryann Hazen-Stearns
Who knows who we are?
Wildly contrasting, contradicting
the minute dissection of isolated acts;
our interplay between identity,
context, family, culture,
life-cycle, life.
The mind of man without memory
for whom each event
is a brand-new experience
after a blow to the head.
To underscore the helplessness
of living; told in fits
and starts,
trying each time to
remember.
Does he need to kill them
or will they lead him to
the one?
Their minds contain nothing
but the present emotions
of the moment.
The only thing that is real
is that which fades away
before we are done
needing it.
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