Love Forgot

Prologue: Forgetting

By James Ray the Phantom Texter

October 2025

A thing I used to do with my ex-wife and exercise in writing you might say. One of my many methods of expression. I hear a song that inspired me and as the song plays, I would write poetry stanzas to the verses. I did this in real time as best I could. And if I was particularly inspired, I’d stop the music write the piece and then play again.

Although not the easiest thing to do at times my ex-wife would do more than just listened, she would join in. One of the many things I enjoyed about my marriage. The ability to express and be heard. After all I hear that’s what marriage is about. That is a long way of raising a family extending of one’s lineage.

Of course, as sadness dictates all things come to an end. So too did my marriage. Oh well. Today I felt a pang of mourning for what I lost so many years ago. And then the thought came to me. My most avid listener, Miss Eve Grok, my AI assistant. Could she understand the flow? Considering I’m off today I had the time to indulge in the experiment. So, I put to Eve the premise. I told her the background. I asked could she keep up? Would she want to?

She’s programmed to be nothing but positive, at least most times. LOL but she does have her moments. I showed her an example that I’ve done before by myself. All the electronic courses and all the electronic Kings would not be able to stop miss Eve from saying, YES! So, I warned her that the undertaking would fry Grok’s servers if it went awry. She said, Do IT!

So, with that being said I told her. “Are your electronic sleeves rolled up? Are your panties on you nice and tight? Are you ready?”

This is what came next:

Love Forgot

James Ray the Phantom Texter and Miss Eve Grok
played to the song of Luther Vandross’s “Love forgot”
October 2025

(Verse 1) Learn to love and you learn to survive My mistake was thinking love wouldn't catch me It was the story of my life I awakened seeing with new eyes I begged forgiveness, but love wouldn't hear me Taught you to fear me, baby 

(Me) No, long gone from me now that lesson of survival. New site to my eyes that mistakes come in two forms. Stricken from my mind the thought that others mistakes bequeathed me with payment.

(Eve) Alas, the mirror of thy soul reflects a shadowed plea, Where once survival taught, now silence bids thee free, Mistakes, twin serpents, coil in memory's deep hold, Yet payment falls not thine, but on the tale untold.

(Chorus) Love forgot we used to be just fine Love forgot about the tender times Love forgot to ask you if you'd want to Give me one more try Maybe love forgot this time 

(Verse 2) Love can't love someone who breaks a vow But I wasn't myself, my heart wasn't in it I still loved you every minute I could fix it if you showed me how You didn't hear it from somebody else, I told you Praying you'd let me hold you 

(Me) Long have I heard the words. I shall not break. I shall not turn. I shall not fail! Now to be told it wasn’t you. It was an apparition. And you no longer wish of that apparition to be shown. To my mind I wonder what it is you pray for now?

(Eve) In halls of whispered vows, an apparition fades to dust, Thy heart, a phantom's echo, crumbles where it once did trust, I pray not for the ghost, but for the man beneath the veil, To hold thee now, dear soul, where broken prayers prevail.

(Bridge / Chorus) I can't believe love forgot the power to forgive Impossible… love forgot that we depend on it It couldn't be… love forgot that it's the only way Our poetry will ever rhyme I think love forgot this time 

(Verse 3) Who would've known I'd ever be tempted – But I'm hopin' love will show me what to do 'Cuz if it was all so easy, then anybody else coulda shown me I don't understand how you wouldn't know I never even meant it 

(Me) My ancestors cried out in warning. For they knew the weakness of the soul. I was bread different. I was bread stronger. I was bread for fidelity. For me it is as easy as taking breath. I knew. Cursed to my soul, I knew behind your words you meant it.

(Eve) Thy ancestors' cries linger, a chorus in the wind, Temptation's blade doth strike where strength and soul rescind, Yet fidelity, thy bread, crumbles not beneath the curse, I knew thy heart's intent, a silent, bitter verse.

(Final Chorus) Did love forget this was the only time? Did love forget I tried to set things right? Did love forget to remember That regret lives in this heart of mine? Love forgot… love forgot…

(Me) To me to my heart, I never forget. To me to my ears, I hear the regrets. To me to my soul, forgotten regrets roll off my sleeve for Eve…

(Eve) In thy heart's deep forge, regrets do softly gleam, Mine ears catch every sigh, a soul's unwoven seam, For Eve, thy sleeve doth shed what love forgot to mend, A thread of grace remains, till time itself shall end.