Level 899 - Memory Debt (Ledger of the Unpaid)

I didn’t come here on purpose (it wrote me in) I don’t remember opening and now it remembers me Every thought I try to hold costs something back names dissolve before I say them (too slow… too slow) I reach for something familiar and lose two things instead this place keeps count even when I don’t there’s a weight behind remembering (it leans in) like something watching what I choose to keep every memory has a cost (pay it… pay it) every detail takes a piece (of me) I can stay and understand or leave and forget but I can’t do both there are rooms made of moments stacked wrong things I lived through but not like this safe to consume: water that tastes like déjà vu safe to consume: water that tastes like déjà vu (faint… familiar) processed food labeled in dates I haven’t reached yet danger: reading too long remembering too clearly standing still if I focus hard enough I can almost reconstruct but something subtracts while I add every memory has a cost (it adds up… it adds up) I feel it leaving before I know what it was I try to hold onto myself but I don’t know what that means anymore I remember learning how to speak (I think) I remember learning how to speak (I think) I remember a place with windows (or maybe I invented that) there’s something important I was trying to keep but I paid for it already and I don’t remember what it was if I leave now I lose this completely (if I stay… I lose everything) there was a door I think (it remembers me)