Do You Remember Me?
Robin Honigsberg
Do you remember me,
and being my bright light,
although your light has dimmed?
Do you remember me,
your firstborn,
or have I become a stranger in your mind?
Do you remember me,
and being my best friend,
lost to me now forever?
Do you remember me,
and our talks late into the night,
your phone call every year at 2:38 pm?
Do you remember me,
the time of my birth,
still, somewhere in your mind?
Do you remember me,
and drying my tears when I was hurt, kissing the pain away, hugging me as I cried,
being my voice when I was too afraid to speak?
Do you remember me,
and the disappointment I brought you?
If only you had forgiven my misdeeds of the past.
Do you remember me,
and the pain I rained on our family thinking we had immeasurable time,
a fatal mistake for which I can never forgive myself.
Do you remember me,
And how much I love you,
and how you’re always in my heart?
Remember me,
I beg you,
in your heart, if not your mind.
and being my bright light,
although your light has dimmed?
Do you remember me,
your firstborn,
or have I become a stranger in your mind?
Do you remember me,
and being my best friend,
lost to me now forever?
Do you remember me,
and our talks late into the night,
your phone call every year at 2:38 pm?
Do you remember me,
the time of my birth,
still, somewhere in your mind?
Do you remember me,
and drying my tears when I was hurt, kissing the pain away, hugging me as I cried,
being my voice when I was too afraid to speak?
Do you remember me,
and the disappointment I brought you?
If only you had forgiven my misdeeds of the past.
Do you remember me,
and the pain I rained on our family thinking we had immeasurable time,
a fatal mistake for which I can never forgive myself.
Do you remember me,
And how much I love you,
and how you’re always in my heart?
Remember me,
I beg you,
in your heart, if not your mind.
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Robin Christine Honigsberg is a writer who lives in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Her writing explores living with mental illness, as well as opinion pieces, personal narratives, poetry, memoirs and short stories. She graduated from Concordia University with a B.A. in Psychology, from McGill University with a Graduate Certificate in Mental Health & Illness, and then from Cegep Marie-Victorin with an Accreditation in Speech-Language Pathology, as a Language Intervention Technician. Her writing has been published in the First Fruits anthology and online at Medium, Vocal, and Substack. She is currently working on preparing her first collection of poems for publication, as well as writing her first novella.
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