When I Forget

I forgot how dark it gets

Midnight sun begins to set

I wouldn’t be here now if I remembered how

Dismal it does get

It’s easy when I forget

I forgot how cold it gets

Below forty begins to set

I pushed the pain away and made the same mistakes

I haven’t learned from them yet

It’s easy when I forget

I try to move forward

But I keep on moving back

I forgot how dark you get

You never yelled when we first met

When you did, I ran but I came back again

Though you haven’t apologized yet

It’s easy when we forget

I forgot how cold I get

While we recall regrets

Every tear you shed goes over my head

You sit alone with your cigarette

It’s easy when we forget

We try to move forward

But we keep on moving back