LIKE A MEMORY

Memories are fickle, choosing to play hide and seek with annoying aplomb, and what if one could choose a memory at will? 

If only ?

If only it were easy

picking up crumbs 

from thoughts left wandering 

on a runaway train 

on a one way track

to an unknown destination

To have on record

the moments suspended

in between disbelief 

and cognitive action

hinged on neither

 not needing either

To have at your command

the power to retrieve

from a soft close file cabinet

an instance from an archive

left undisturbed since gestation

Take your pick 

if you remember at all

Because the dryads of your mind

Play hide and seek with intellect

interfering with recollection

And like a memory 

that is never forgotten

flashes of a younger self 

fly south from where they are stored

during trans-neuronal migration

And 'If only'

is left clutching at straws

Sifting through a million memos

crowding a cerebral one BHK

with one memory yearning for recognition

- Kathy’s Song - Simon and Garfunkel