A Song For Susan: Preserve Your Memories (They're All That's Left You)

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Title: A Song For Susan: Preserve Your Memories (They’re All That’s Left You)
Warnings: Major Character Death
Notes: The title is from Old Friends/Bookends as sung by Simon & Garfunkel. This is set after the train crash during The Last Battle. As always, any characters you recognise belong to C. S. Lewis.
Character(s): Susan Pevensie
Pairing(s): None
Rating: G
Summary: Forcing yourself to forget, because you can’t bear to remember what you can no longer have, is not the same as simply forgetting.

You’d never asked me yet
If I ever could forget
How the setting sun could turn the sky to flame.
Or if the gentle light
From the moon and stars at night
Clouds my memories and fills my heart with pain.

I remember all your names
And the wild, free Narnian plains
And there’s part of me that’s missing, now you’re gone;
For it doesn’t feel quite real
And I don’t know how to feel
When you’ve left me here, and I am all alone.

For I did not forget.
And it’s carried with me, yet,
’Though Narnia is nothing but a name.
But they’re now for ever gone,
And I am the only one;
And there’s more to life than playing children’s games.

No, you hadn’t asked me yet
If I ever did forget
How the Narnian sun could turn the skies to flame;
Or if the shining light
Of its moon and stars at night
Haunts my memories and fills my heart with pain.