Painful Memories

So many things lie forgotten in my mind
memory causing anguish, I wish not to find.
Until that moment I see, touch, hear or smell,
I remember and the countless lost stories retell.
My mind awakes, aware of the danger it has yet to forgo.
What act of torture will these memories this time bestow?
Now they strike,but how can the mind harm the heart?
Causing me to tremble as the pieces fall apart.
Slowly moments pass then minutes, days and years.
Does it really take this long to dry up all these tears?
Yet my soul does not recover just hardens like a stone
and only for a while will these painful memories become unknown.
For again they shall return and they will ruthlessly attack,
breaking my bitter heart as all these memories come back.