Is there a word for forgetting what a word is?
You know, just a single word
A term, I think they call it
I can’t even remember the word for that
So how am I supposed to remember the word for forgetting words?
I think there must be a word for it
There always is
I remember a world of fancy words
Vaguely
A once upon a time world
That never was
I’m nostalgic but have little idea of how I arrived here
I can’t remember what I’m forgetting
Fancy words (A once upon a time world/That never was)
might well be forgotten in favor of simple, direct, honest ones–like “I can’t remember,” which is not easy for me to say (either) because I am afraid of being thought daffy, or of really being daffy.
So I tell myself, let’s carry on anyway. But you, you’re doing just fine with words. Keep writing!
Thank you. :)
Is it sad that I knew immediately that the word for missing words is “aphasia” even as I totally got the metaphor and beauty of that last broken statement?
Also, I knew the word because I suffer from it. Watch me struggle to spit out a common every day word, and you’ll see me blather through synonym after synonym and launch into elaborate descriptions with no success.
I knew there was a word! I was going with dys- though. Words are slippery things. Thank you for commenting. :)