Mission: Mesmerization

Does anyone have that one thing memorized from when you were a kid?

-The Gettysburg Address

-Scripture Mastery from seminary

-A poem you had to recite

For me, it's a poem. It's been three years, which I understand isn't a long time, but I still have it memorized.

It's actually a very depressing poem, but for some reason I really like it.

I Am by John Claire

I am. Yet what I am non cares or knows.

My friends forsake me like a memory lost.

I am the self consumer of my woes,

They rise and vanish in oblivious host.

And yet I am, and live like vapors tost.

Into the nothingness of scorn and noise,

into the living sea of waking dreams,

but the vast shipwreck of my life's esteems.

Even the dearest that I love the best are strange,

nay, rather, stranger than the rest.

I long for scenes where man hath never trod,

A place where women never smiled nor wept,

There to abide with my creator God,

to sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept,

The grass below, above the vaulted sky.

It's funny how I can memorize this, and yet I struggle with remembering the little things in life.