I tow my past with me, a heavy weight resisting when I try to move on from my trauma.
I carry my past with me, in a carefully crafted basket, woven not with love but with delicately tied knots ever fearful of being torn apart by memories wrought out of trauma
I leave my past when I forget the details and mistake the memories for dreams. left at abandoned bus stops, behind worn closet hangers, past dusty winter windows.
But the past always comes back up, when I least expected it when I might have moved on when I have mended my brittle body
but
my past returns, an ex lover demanding memories that were never theirs
my past ruins, a second hand car with the brakes cut out
my past reminds, a death sentence, handpicked for me before my birth.
Forever mending, the past always breaks
I cannot escape my past until I bury the part of me that died there
"my past reminds,a death sentence, handpicked for me before my birth." and "I cannot escape my past until I bury the part of me that died there" are both HEARTBREAKING </3 you're doing amazing! <333
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an ex lover demanding memories that were never theirs
</3 Oof! Love how this poem plays with the speaker's complicated relationship with their past / relationship and the weaving motif too. ALSO I love when in midst of the spontaneity of poetry interesting coincidences happen like that we have two butterfly inspired napo threads this year.
Hope you share another poem with us Omni, I really enjoy this first one, thanks for sharing it! <3
you should know i am a time traveler & there is no season as achingly temporary as now
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