Challenge
Write a poem using the words "remember" and "forget" at least once, with one at the beginning and one near the end.
Forget Me
Forget my face, it's not important
Neither is this fleshly frame
Forget my rough and clumsy fingers
Lose my image, lose my name
Forget the roughness of my stubble
And the colour of my eyes
Forget the way I never fit
The space my body occupies
Forget the way I always stumble
Gawky as a fresh spring calf
Forget my voice, each halting mumble
Off-key song and braying laugh
Forget the way my clothes don't fit me
And my always cowlicked hair
Forget whatever private things
Might hide beneath my underwear
Forget the times I know you've wondered
Whether I am even real
I only ask that you remember
Everything I made you feel
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