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“ When Memory Fails ”
– held in time will –
When memory fails
As held in time will,
You’ll find it pales
Said ‘tis all but still,
Tho we’ll so falter
Must find to bide,
In kindly shelter
Until subsides,
Its weary burden
As one tries hide,
Ways it’ll worsen
In destined slide,
Of a dying mind
Be receding use,
Far beyond find
Now so abstruse,
While shy of time
As recall hides,
In its seclusion
Tho one is to abide,
When memory fails
In its retched mental prison,
Time wants tell to say goodbye!
ode to victims of failed memory…
© Jean-Jacques Fournier
Music, of Erik Satie – Gnossienne 1, by Otto Tolonen, guitar