A memory dead

A Memory Dead

What happens to a memory dead?

Does it disinigrate
like paper in a fire?
Or linger like a stench-
never leaving the room?
Does it sink to the bottom
like a heavy stone thrown in a lake?
Or reemerge-
Like a moldy log traveling down a river?

Maybe it just fades
like smoke into the air.

Or does it burst?

This one, again for english. We were supposed to copy the format for the poem "A dream defered". At the time that I wrote this I was going through a lot of friend changes, and in this poem I was questioning if all the memories I had of my former friends would stay with me or if in time, I would just forget.