One Day You Will Forget Me

One day

You will forget me 

And us 

And our everyday

One day you will

Go into the dark

Without a light to guide you

And I will be left

Incomplete and hollow

Maybe I won't have teeth then

To chew my food 

And perhaps my digestion will go

As I come to realize 

That one day

I too will forget you

And us 

And our everyday

Then like you 

I too will go into the dark

With nobody to guide me 

But they say

Absence makes the heart fonder 

So perhaps our parting

Will help us to remember

What it is we had

And therefore 

One day you just might

Remember

Me and us

And our everyday

Maybe then I'll understand

Why 

What we have is special

And necessary

For if you go into the dark

I will follow

As surely as night follows day

And Tuesday follows Monday

The Bilge Master