[ WP ] You are in love with an eternally youthful person with a memory limit . Every second they live , they forget more and more about who they used to be .

“ No matter what happens, I will never forget you. ” Those were his last words to me. 
 
 But that was twenty-eight years ago. Time has passed. I ’ ve grown old. What seems to have been yesterday, now feels like a distant memory. And somehow, the details of his face are still etched in my mind, as if I just saw him yesterday. His smile, still comforts me those nights I can ’ t sleep. His blue green eyes, like the ocean, still twinkle like the stars in the night sky. I can feel your lips on mine, your embrace, so warm and welcoming. I remember. At least, I thought I did. 
 
 As days go by, the moments we once shared sometimes escape, like a thief in the night. The vows we once shared have lost their meaning.The trips to Amsterdam, the long nights in Paris, the road trips to California have all faded. The only memoriam that remains are the Polaroids that hang on the walls of my room. And even those seem to have lost the memories we once cherished. On the back of these pictures you wrote our firsts. When I asked you why, you said, “ So when I start to forget, I ’ ll remember. ” The last picture we took, has no words on the back. The picture of you holding my hand in the hospital. Your smile still comforting me, your warm lips touched my head one last time, then as you walked out you parted me with “ I will never forget you. ” 
 
 I still lie awake, wondering what growing old with you would ’ ve felt like. The warm days on the porch watching our grandchildren play. Their joy giving us a feeling of belonging. But I ’ ve grown old. Not on that old porch that we once shared, but inside these torn walls of this room. Where I still see your face, when I close my eyes. I ’ ve thought about what we could ’ ve been, but I forgot who we were. I still love you. But you don ’ t remember how much you once loved me. 
 
 The nurse walked in, “ You have a visitor. ” The same smile that once warmed my heart, the same eyes that twinkle like stars greeted me for the first time in twenty-eight years. “ I told you I ’ ll never forget you. ” 

