Wash This Memory Clean

-Wash This Memory Clean-
by
Keaton Foster



If I could just sleep
Just find some peace
If I could breathe
Allow my heart to skip
Just a few precious beats
That would be freeing
Revitalizing
Awe inspiring
If I could just find a way
A precious moment of peace
My life has always been hell
Upon an endless sea of swells
Many ups and many downs
Every impossible struggle
Fighting against the world
While waging Unwinnable battles
Against myself
Will it ever stop
I believe that it will
I alone must find the way
To wash this memory clean
Only when I cannot remember
Will I ever have a real chance at forgetting
All that has brought me to this place
To this life of impossible weights
Only then will I find some peace
And an endless sense of relief
I am sure that I deserve as much
I have paid more than I should
I have bled every damn truth
I have hemorrhaged so much pain
I am dying on the inside
My body, broken down and beat
My heart, relentless and unforgiving
My mind, ravenous and unhinged
Imagination is both my salvation
And my absolute damnation
Washing this memory clean
Might somehow reset the impossible
Might somehow stave off the inevitable
It is the only real chance that I have
It is the one thing I must somehow do…




Wash This Memory Clean
Written by Keaton Foster Copyright © 2013