by Ned Taufik
The best things are those you forget
Because they’re little
We’ve forgotten that we’re moving in this universe
That we’re existing
We’ve forgotten we’re humans
And humans will be big and afterwards will be small
And just like particles in anything you will find
Pressure will pin you down
And some particles stick better but mine somehow don’t and that of many others too
Because we’re not metals
Because we’re skins and flesh and blood and bones and nerves
And everything is moving and everything is changing and everything is wild
But we want it to be tamed like we want to tame everything
We want to tame our minds, we want to tame our behavior, we want to tame our pets
We want things to stop, we want control, we want to control, we want to be controlled
We want to be big and we want to be small and we want to be nothing and we want to be everything
And we want to close our eyes and we want to never wake up
And we want to wake up again but some people can’t anymore
And we forget how good it is to wake up and to go to sleep
And to move again and to achieve something
And to eat and drink and to not run around with worries and anxiety
We forget how much we want to be here in this moving universe so easily
When we’re small, when we’re helpless, when we forgot how big we were before
And how in comparison things are a lot smaller now and more forgettable
Because we once mastered them but when we don’t anymore
We forget
That the best things are those ones we forget
© Ned Taufik 2024-02-05