Fires Of The Past
Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2019 11:55 pm
Fires Of The Past
Donning the cloak.
A thread bare mantel
stitched from the nettles,
shadows of my youth,
It's become clear
it must be shed,
left burning to ash
in the fires of the past.
Disappointment overtakes
recognizing the same mistakes.
made with the older generation,
repeated as well with the young.
Wanting and wishing,
doesn't make it be.
Can't force the feelings,
... set the bird free.
Song, 'Stay With Me'
prompted in my mind.
Not exact, but sentiment the same
If, “It ain't love,”
… then it's not enough.
Time for letting go,
of feelings lodged in echoes,
singed by embers,
hurt too long remembered.
If ever
to move forward at long last,
means relinquishing tethers
...to the fires of the past.
July 4, 2019
Kim
Donning the cloak.
A thread bare mantel
stitched from the nettles,
shadows of my youth,
It's become clear
it must be shed,
left burning to ash
in the fires of the past.
Disappointment overtakes
recognizing the same mistakes.
made with the older generation,
repeated as well with the young.
Wanting and wishing,
doesn't make it be.
Can't force the feelings,
... set the bird free.
Song, 'Stay With Me'
prompted in my mind.
Not exact, but sentiment the same
If, “It ain't love,”
… then it's not enough.
Time for letting go,
of feelings lodged in echoes,
singed by embers,
hurt too long remembered.
If ever
to move forward at long last,
means relinquishing tethers
...to the fires of the past.
July 4, 2019
Kim