Early Amnesia

I have met some people
Who claim to remember
Their birth and even before,
But as for me,
It was as if I hatched
When I was about four.
My earlier years
Must have been
Traumatic,
For it seems
I developed amnesia
And completely
Erased them
From my mind.
I am told
That every thought
I ever had
And everything
I ever did
Is permanently etched
In my brain somewhere,
And if so,
Perhaps the memories
Will someday
Come flooding back,
But I don’t think
I am ready for that.
I must have
Wiped the slate clean
For some reason,
And I prefer not to know
What the reason was!