Forget Me Not by Roland Tsoi
Forget me not.
Forget me not, she says,
As the tears run down their face,
The strained contortion of wrinkles and struggle of recognition,
Forget me not.
Her voice pulsates, shivers at seeing the one she loves,
The pain, and anguish, and eventual redemption of those memories flooding back to her,
Memories of holding hands in reminiscence on a sunset,
a warm glow nestling upon intertwined bodies,
Memories of hearts beating against the rib cage, screaming to be heard,
rattling for the other to understand,
Can you not see that my love is pounding, reaching out for you?
I long to wrap my body onto yours, to hold you safe against the world…
Yesterday,
All my troubles seemed so far away
Now it looks as though they're here to stay
Oh, I believe in yesterday
“I wrote this a few years back and it’s been sitting in my “meh folder”. I think the reason I’ve got this love/hate relationship with it is… I’ve got this fascination of that final scene in the Notebook, where Alison briefly remembers and falters back into dementia and I’ve always wanted to capture that… also because songs tend to stick with patients with dementia… I think why I dislike this piece is that, ‘Yesterday’ as a song feels cliché and honestly feels like what I've wanted to capture and what is produced isn’t quite there.”
Roland Tsoi