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Laura Plummer is a Massachusetts-born writer and poet. Her work has been featured in numerous print and online publications, including The Sun and Chicken Soup for the Soul. She lived in Boston for seven years before relocating to Gloucester in 2014. Read more at lauraplummer.me.

Laura Plummer

If I Forget You

My love, if I forget you
When my mind decides to go
If my kisses disappear
And conversations slow

If your face is unfamiliar
And I don’t reach for your hand
Please know that I’m still here
Though not as I had planned

My love, if I forget you
And meet you once again
Make me fall in love with you
Just like you did back then

If I can’t recall our journey
And my smile fades away
Remember for the both of us
Remind me of the days

When you and I were lovers
In embraces soft and still
For my mind might forget you
But my heart never will

— Laura Plummer