To Forgive AND to Forget

They say to forgive and to forget, but just when you thought you have, your soul flows over with emotion, like water, pouring over a glass.
Memories so vivid, they cut like knives, I feel the darkness and fear in my body, the way I felt that moment in time. I try hard to forget, but the truth is covered with lies, I realize...you're not sorry, no desire to apoligize, I'm just another who has been victimized.
Trying to live in oblivion, but what you did to me was a sin. You try to ignore the realities of the past, I try to find the courage to ask, but you would only deny, so...forget I asked.
Trying to ignore what I thought then, to be nightmares from the past, but the truth hurts, to forgive and to forget...that's just too much to ask.

~Bernadette