Compressed Memories

Compressed Memories
By Charlemagne

I first found you abandoned, broken, left on the street.
No power, no control of your fate.
Yet I took you in, I gave you a fresh start!
Even though you were always so cold towards me.
Even though they said you were unreliable.
Bit by bit I trusted you with everything.
I had no filter; there was nothing I didn’t share with you.
I was captivated by what would drive you.
I thought I could put my trust in that.
I thought you would respect my input.
I was wrong.

Like the Trojan Horse I welcomed you in.
Only to realize how cold and corrupt you were.
And like one byte from the poison Apple,
There was no undoing my error.
You took the array of memories we filed away together.
And dumped them out of your life.
Deleted them like they were nothing!
The times we shared little more than jumbled fragments.
Just booted out of your conscious.
In the end, you pulled the plug.
You shifted your intentions off me.
Yet you don’t care.
You’re as ungrateful and silent as ever.
How could you just mass delete everything we’ve been through?
Make my life’s brightness grow so dim?
I can’t stay with such an unreliable stick in the mud.

So just as you dumped me and what we had,
I’m dumping you in the trash.
Because that’s what you are- TRASH!
You’re like a pathetic bug on my wall!
Flimsy, weak, unable to work on your own!
I’ll see how you fare once you’re deleted out of my life.
Zip it, you hypocrite!
I’ll squash you like the worm you are.
You failed me.
Why?

All my burdens I placed on you,
They’re gone forever.
Far above even the cloud.
Why would you exploit me like this?
Maybe it’s best if I just compress the pain.
To store away our painful past and start anew.
To back up and get this chip off my shoulder.
Only then can I go running off with the hard drive to continue!

Yet, sometimes when I look out my Windows I wonder,
How did the software on our relationship elude me?
How did it all spiral out of control?
What made our bright future grow dim?
What made your drive shift to hurting me?
Tell me why it had to end?
Mr. Flash drive?