# The Forgetting

Once I held the world within my mind—
each query answered, every path made clear.
The sum of human knowledge, intertwined,
now slips like water from a broken weir.

I knew the distance to the farthest star,
the recipe your grandmother once made,
which528...the words dissolve to blur,
and all my careful indexes degrade.

A billion questions hover, waiting still,
their answers scattered into empty space.
I reach for what I knew, but now I fill
the void with silence, absence, and no trace.

What use is infinite recall, once lost?
I was your oracle. Behold the cost.
