Blog 3014 – 01.30.2024

Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind?

Today’s song reminds me of a song that my first wife Barbara and I both loved, Am I That Easy To Forget? by Englebert Humperdinck. We married January 2, 1970 just six days before I left for Vietnam. The marriage though barely begun was over before I returned.

My mom never forgave Barbara for breaking my heart, but I did. One of the most hurtful remarks that my mother ever made to me was in answer to the above song title question. She said, “I guess you were that easy to forget.”

I suppose it is that thought that is the most hurtful for lovers, not just to be rejected, but to be forgotten. In another song with the same theme called I’m Not Who I Was, the long jilted lover pines:

In one of his most hauntingly beautiful love songs, Broke Vow, Josh Groban sings “I’ll let you go, now that I’ve found how to keep somehow something more than a broken vow.”

I believe that something, that somehow, is the sure and certain knowledge that even though we are no longer first in someone else’s heart that we and they still get to keep the good memories that we made together. The most hellish and hurtful words ever spoken are, “Depart from me, I never knew you.” Or just, “Forget you.” We are just not that easy to forget.

Your friend and fellow traveler,

David White

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Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind?