Memories

Sometimes when it is quiet and I am in the alone, the memories from a lifetime ago start to creep in and take over. Sometimes they are not quite fully formed but more a feeling of the moment that I put somewhere in there to be pulled and pried from me. Sometimes the drift over me while drifting off into the land of slumber. Do you remember the touch, the taste, the feel of a lover, that moment when it all collided and came together the anticipation and lingering effects of that memory? How do so many lose that memory and place it aside for more practical things? Never forget the memories or the dreams that held them in place, the dreams may change, but to forget where they came from and the memories that hold them is to lose a bit of life. I find that for me the memories are more feelings than actual parts of an event, I suppose that is why they are memorable. I love some, hate others but am happy to have a lifetime now of them, they are mine to share and dish out as I choose. Funny how sometimes mine seems so different than the other people involved, is it because I am scrutinizing them and reclaiming what I thought was lost and gone forever. I feel like my memories at times are just in the corner of my sight, like catching a movement when it is not really there.... or is it?

Hello, old lady.
I know your face well.
I know it well.

She says,
"Ooh-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na!
I'll be sitting in your mirror.
Now is the place where the crossroads meet.
Will you look into the future?

"Never, never say goodbye
To my part of your life.
No, no, no, no, no!
Oh, oh, oh,

"Let me live!"
She said.
"C'mon and let me live, girl!"
She said,
"C'mon and let me live, girl!"
("C'mon and let me live!")

"This moment in time,"
(She said.)
It doesn't belong to you,"
(She said,)
It belongs to me,

"And to your little boy and to your little girl,
And the one hand clapping:
Where on your palm is my little line,
When you're written in mine
As an old memory?
Ooh, na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-

"Never, never say goodbye
To my part of your life.
Oh no, no, no, no, no!
Never, never, never!
Never, never let me go!"

She said,
"C'mon and let me live, girl!'
("C'mon and let me live!")
She said,
"C'mon and let me live, girl!"
("C'mon and let me live!")

I put this
moment..............................................here.
I put this moment.........................here.
I put this moment--

"Over here!
"Over here!
Can't you see where memories are kept bright?
Tripping on the water like a laughing girl.
Time in her eyes is spawning past life,
One with the ocean and the woman unfurled,
Holding all the love that waits for you here.
Catch us now for I am your future.
A kiss on the wind and we'll make the land.
Come over here to where When lingers,
Waiting in this empty world,
Waiting for Then, when the lifespray cools.
For Now does ride in on the curl of the wave,
And you will dance with me in the sunlit pools.
We are of the going water and the gone.
We are of water in the holy land of water
And all that's to come runs in
With the thrust on the strand."
-Jig of Life
-kate Bush