A True Memoir ~ Mostly

mental gymnastics
put yourself back
in time to
who you and they
were then
but with
hindsight perspective
evaluation and
introspection

attempt to be fair
to yourself and
those who accompanied
you through
each of the physical
emotional and psychical
features of your
historical arc
cradle to grave

memoir needs a
personal perspective
but realistic truthful
evaluation of times
and events leading
to the writing nexus
it should not be
a historical romance
novel nor apologetics

as far as possible
an accurate and
emotionally truthful
account of your
personal and family’s
historical arc
hopefully picked up
and completed by
your descendants

just a

footnote
in human
history’s
book of
shadows
book of
unlikely
characters
its grimoire

–LE – 11/17/23