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Rated: ASR · Poetry · Psychology · #1008939

memory is not always a good thing

My past visited me again.
I tried to walk away
but it caught me.
I had no choice
but to acknowledge
that it was mine.

I keep hoping that some day
I'll find a place
far enough away
that it can't find me
or at least
it won't care.
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