I Wrote it All Down

I wrote it all down
so I wouldn't forget.
I won't say I forgot
I ignored remembering
or maybe it meant something
different later on, or that it
suddenly didn't matter anymore.

I had a good faith intention on the
follow-through of the promise
to myself; the promise to just stop
thinking the rest of the world, or
just one, cares what I'm saying
while I'm saying it.

I'm going to write it down again
to remind myself that sometimes
you just can't have what you want
no matter how much you want it,
as if varying degrees of want
influence its outcome. It's all
right there in the laws of action
and reaction. It's scientific, it
should work. Why doesn't it?