Memories
Time turns us subtly Into our memories And then we are forgotten.
Mike Stone
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Time turns us subtly Into our memories And then we are forgotten.
Mike Stone's three short lines describe a quiet kind of disappearing. The poem suggests that we don't vanish all at once. Instead, time changes us "subtly," so gently that we hardly notice it happening, until we have become our own memories.
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