FORGETTING

Blinding lime
Skews emerald across cumulus nimbus
With loud claps and lightning  
The sky is green the moon was green
 
This you will forget
 
To become someone
You ought to be  
Or someone you ought not
 
Forgetting to be you
 
Till cognition's just a cog in a timepiece
And recognition a face in a mirror
Your voice-recorded-words mimicked  
Words that boomerang and throat stick
 
Forgetting  
 
You become the words that you eat
Forgetting to serve words that inspired
Inspired means the air you breath in
Forgetting who's air you became
 
Forgetting  
 
That black and white keys unlock music
And sound wrong unless played together
And people are also like spiny fish vertebrae
Or fish scales that alight in the darkest waters  
In deep waters caught with wire
 
All this you will forget
 
And what is forgotten ceases to exist
Like the first black pharaohs or their enemies
Who tamed wild horses