I know and forget

I know and forget, I know and forget, like the tides

Walking inside my body, I seem to move always ahead

I know and forget, I know and forget, like the seasons

Love me for my secrets, the backwards looks behind me

I know and forget, I know and forget, like the wisdoms

I am a burning library and I cannot be saved. Shrieking languages

I answer and ask, I answer and ask, like the poems

Collecting, collecting. Don't let the words slip away

I answer and ask, I answer and ask, like the histories

Forgotten females, underground memories, stilled

I answer and ask, I answer and ask, like the gravestones

Who are the names? What are the lies that they told?

I love and I fight, I love and I fight, like the marriages

How many houses, how many children, how many years?

I answer and ask, I answer and ask, like the songs

Front-page fears unrecognized in the lullabies

I know and forget, I know and forget, like the jungle

Glossy green triumphant, civilizations lost