the city keeps forgetting you

Naeem Hossain, Bangladesh

the skin of halfhearted memories are peeled away
and covered with grief and sorrow.
and grief? too unconfined like water
always trying to find ways to spill itself from the vessel
and home? it is all that you forget.
the scent of loneliness that i devour walks with me
like a shadow trying to find light in order to disappear.
and this city? it is all that it forgets.
the city keeps forgetting me, forgetting you.
but you remember the parallel reality you had in mind and
it is so hard to forget the architecture you built of the city
as always grief spilled itself in it.

Naeem is a poet from Bangladesh who likes to explore the depth and meaning of life through poetry. His poems usually explores the transitory of existence, the uncertainty of teen years, chaos, and love.