Some Beloved Forgettings

I had truly forgotten what it means to be conscientious!
I forgot to heed conscience's cry and let you slip away!
I forgot to honor conscience above all else and lose you in the process!
I forgot to become a person of principle in a world emptied of you!
Once more I forgot all the curses of silence's suburban visitor!
I forgot to remain bound by the rigid chains of time-worn customs!
Yes, I truly forgot to love those truths stripped bare of you!
I forgot to stand a thousand miles from you on love's bloodied plains and abandon you!
I forgot to watch night's vast sky drunk on its play of black and blue without your touch!
I forgot to wander paths adorned with nebulae across night's expansive breast instead of following in your wake!
Yes... today I truly forgot to search for you while lost within your you-less self, standing in some indifferent field's corner!
I even forgot that faithful instinct called conscience, carefully arranged in my heart's temple's sanctuary!