Forget-me-nots

A haiku with a quiet reflection

Public domain image created by ChatGPT

forget-me-nots — the doorway of amnesia

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Forget-me-nots have long carried the quiet plea to remember, yet here they stand beside a doorway where memory itself begins to fade. The contrast feels tender rather than tragic, suggesting that forgetting can be as natural a passage as remembering.

There is something deeply human in pausing before such an unseen threshold, aware that what lies beyond may hold both loss and release. Rather than resisting the inevitable softening of memory, the poem seems to accept it with quiet grace.

Its few words invite the reader to linger in that uncertain space, where remembrance and absence briefly coexist, leaving an image that continues to resonate long after the doorway has disappeared from view.

First published on NaHaiWriMo.

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