Let us go

and walk the forgotten paths

of the forgotten wilderness

until we ourselves are forgotten,

forgotten by the world we want

to forget.



- (C) by Sloane J. 2008

Some ideas can be put forward in such simple words.

I found this extremely touching. Maybe because it captures so effectively a feeling that I share.
To be forgotten by the world and in exchange forget this world around us.

I like this one, Sloane, short but effective.

Les

wolf,

At 64 I am content to live in the part of the world I can manage to remember each day, that includes what I approve of and what disappoints me. Forgetting has such deleterious effects on the healthy psyche. Forgive me for being so contrary, since your poem is touching and does touch a deep human need to 'get away from it' rather than confront what we must oppose by not forgetting ... the perhaps insurmountable evil and suffering that an ordinary life must face, not only in our own times. These challenges and sufferings are recounted in literature at least since the account of the King in Sumeria who rule 2500 years B.C. written between the Tigris Euphrates rivers At any rate, literature has responded to human suffering a long time by not forgetting.

On a more recent scale, your poem reminds me of the sixties song 'make the world go away,' which George Wallace used as a campaign song.

Sorry for all these irrelevant associations...it's my brain speaking.

amo,

Peter