I absolutely love this poem. It captures feelings of confusion and feeling like you see something others don’t. 
Also love the fire and the extinguisher line. Very vivid and clear poem. Keep it up


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How can I survive a day without knowing the people around me?
Familiar, yet I don't seem to recognize their faces.
The atmosphere around feels like home; like comfort,
Yet I still forget fragments of my memory- like a film exposed to the sun.
"I don't know you," I reel, "Yet why do I feel like I've known you for centuries?"
Like a burning memory I try to stop with a fire extinguisher,
but it only made it a lot worse.

I don't remember how we used to look at each other,
like our own prized possessions.
But why can I explain that feeling so perfectly when others couldn't?
Because love stays like a lingering sting in our hearts.
Despite our bodies percolates of pain and sufferings,
Love can still be the best thing that can ever happen to us.

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Forget Me Not