Blessed are thee
memories
chosen to be forgotten
dissolved into distant haze.
Cherished are those
brilliant first rays
alighting the new path
of unknowns.
In the sky
and in the sea,
the clouds and waves
do not recall those passed.
Likewise, made of the same,
and never the same
You and I
remember-
Painting by Henry Scott Tuke, 'Looking out to sea' c. 1885 in Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.