Trying To Remember

Trying To Remember
(c) by fanfare

I am trying to remember
Where I hid from myself
The note I scribbled
To remind myself
Of what I keep forgetting to do!

Every day I create a new reason
To piss myself off
with another clumsy attempt
At forgetting what I need to do.

I would use the simile
Of having Swiss cheese for brains.
But that would just trigger
My gluttonous appetite.

And off I go to grab another
Unnecessary snack to waste my time.
Derailing whatever train of thought
That was so important a minute ago.

I stand here,
Shuffling my feet, back & forth,
Hesitating in frustration
At the precipice of the big blank.

With all the bodily infirmities,
Of a bad back, & bad knees,
Deteriorating vision & hearing,
And always, the rheumatic aches.

Adding injury to insult,
are my declining memories.
As senility slowly creeps through my mind.
Remorselessly as a strangler vine
Will choke a once healthy tree.