Will You Forget?

Today is the day
The day we proclaim
We must be divided
Our love has been slain.

The crying and shouting
Were all done in vain
Nothing could have rescued
Our hearts from the pain.

So today is the day
Our rings must be cast
Away, though I have
One question to ask.

Will you forget about me?
You must have wondered it, too
After all this time
If I could forget about you.

It worries me sometimes
If I’ll be in your thoughts
Or if by tomorrow
I might be forgot.

Will you forget about me
And my misshapen feet
That never could dance
But tapped to your beat?

The chords that you strummed
The riffs that you played
The words that you sang
Made my anxiety fade.

Will you forget about me
Those first kisses we had,
Or the time we were caught
Making out-by my dad?

He really flipped out
When we got up and ran
And he had to chase us
In his sports minivan.

It was so exciting
And I’ll admit it; it’s true
That from that moment on
I couldn’t stop thinking about you.

So will you forget about me
Since together we fled
Without our parents’ permission
So we could be wed?

We promised that day
As we signed those forms
To compromise and cooperate
Living by each other’s terms.

Maybe we were too young
It was a mistake
We shouldn’t have promised
To love for love’s sake.

Will you forget about me
And the laughter and sighs
Before the resentment
Made us say our good-byes?

It still chafes my ass
To think I borrowed your cell
Only to be phoned
By your mistress from hell.

But I suppose it hurts you, too
When you fancy to recall
That I had been flirting
With that guy at the mall.

Will you forget about me--
How it all fell to pieces
As the secrets and lies
Were exposed like diseases?

We yelled and we screamed
Yet nothing was wrong
Except that we knew
This was the end of our song.

Will you forget about me,
When the papers go through
And you finally realize
I’m no longer related to you?

I wish I could say
That the tears were mis-shed
It wasn’t all bad
The lives that we’ve led.

Although it was--hey…
Perhaps it was good
Despite all the sorrow and
Grief we’ve withstood.

The pain cuts us deep
Compounded with hate
We cannot forgive
It isn’t our fate.

But forgetting is worse
Far worse than deceit
It’d be like pretending
We never did meet.

Forget or remember
It won’t do to flatter
Just do this for me
Just clear up this matter.

I want you to look at me
Once more like you did
Before we were married
Back when we were kids.

Will you forget about me?
Time has convinced me to dare
To say these last words--
I won’t forget you, I swear!