The Comforts Of Relative Amnesia

In middle age I have to admit to being terrible
at remembering stories I once presumed to know.
Only the stickiest facts stay with me,
whilst I scramble the narrative they were once attached to.

But I am thankful that with what awareness I have left
I remain relatively forgiving of my own forgetfulness,
which also helps me forgive other people's amnesias.

Cleanliness Is Next To Forgetfulness

For thirty years I have known
of St Anlem's ontological proof
for the existence of God,
and for all that time I doubted it's wisdom.
'greater' seemed so bland a term,
it made belief bland in it's turn.

But today I realised what was missing
from the argument for me.
It is not that God is greater than me,
or as great as I can see him to be-
that limits him to the weakness
of my vision. It is more that God
has seen it all, could remember all.
But he chooses to forget by forgiving.