corrupted memories

memory has no function
as truth
it shades and shifts
deceives even it~self

that memory so vivid
those arcane certainties
of yesterday
   forgotten
   never happened

memory corrupts self
as frequently as
self corrupts memory
shaping and creating
      consciously
  unconsciously
subconsciously

an insight once informed that
struggling with
the erratic melding of
memory and truth
is a battle lost at birth
and that anyway
concentrating too rigidly on truth
misses the point of existence
for there are three irrefutable rules
with regard to truth and memory
and i think
~but can never be certain~
that mankind has forgotten
all of them