It's insulting, what people say when ending things. In the realm of poetic, self-serving phrases that sting for weeks, months, years. 
"I'll remember you", spoken like I was a lesson, a tool, rather than a human being. It's happened more than once. I wrote this song last year after mulling that phrase over, and the result is here. It feels good to get it out, like a reminder to myself that I deserve to be treated like a whole person.

Lyrics:
Don't remember me
Don't think of me at all
Get my name out of your mouth
As a lesson to be told
Seek your soothing somewhere else
The choice was in the fall 
//
A testament to what we shared is writing this at all
But I won't let this go that fast
Collateral damage in this war of yours
//
Don't remember me
Let me melt away
A winter untouched by our hands
Plans we made and lost
A summer rain on you
It wasn't meant to stay 
//
A testament to what we shared is writing this at all
But I won't say it's mine to bear 
The cruelty in honesty is yours
//
Don't remember me
You have done enough
Reap your harvest, now you know
You tried me on for size
Try to fix all that you have
Is maintenance a chore?
//
A testament to what we shared is writing this at all
But make sure that your soil is rich
Before you go through planting seeds 
that had no chance
To grow with you
Were always doomed
That you just left to die
//
Don’t remember me
'Cuz Im not fucking dead

Don't Remember Me

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