A Toast To Absent Memory

The more we produce, and reproduce,
images of who we are and where we live,
half-hoping the images would reveal
to the future what we did to get to where we are,
the less we realise that the future will not
be the judge of the past that we expect it to be.

We can prove that very easily by how selectively
we view the past from our present.

All the presents from the past the we remember
are selective beyond belief, detail shorn of context
based on images where public display was what mattered,
where the private life was the fullest life that everyone had
and it was only preserved in misremembered smatters. 

The Infinity Question vs Forgetfulness

Innumerate people now ask
'What is the biggest number'
not thinking it through to
whatever number they get,
adding one to it will make it one bigger.

In Jesus' day, the disciple Peter
asked the biggest number question the following way, 
'Teacher, how many times must I forgive?'
as if as a disciple he were some sort of flatterer,
or some cloth eared pedant who saw forgiveness,
and being forgiven, in terms of single instances
that could be ranked, and measured out, between people,
unlike the debts and trespasses a person prays
to be cancelled when they say The Lord's Prayer,

Jesus answered Peter figuratively,
'seventy times seven', but if I were asked
my answer to how often I need to forgive
and be forgiven has to be 'One more time
than I have counted and think I should be',
because I know my ability to forget things.