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Rated: 13+ · Poetry · Emotional · #1998443
Moving from the past through the present and into an unknown future
PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE



The faintest hint of wood smoke floating in the evening air,

Now thrusts me back to earlier days before my loss and care.

How can it be, this homely scent recalls those long gone days?

And layers over pain and loss those simple joys and praise?



Can I go back, reclaim the past and live my life again?

This foolish whim can only lead to wretchedness and pain.

And now I know the sun shines bright, the day is calm and warm

It speaks to me of new-born hope, of shelter from the storm.



The future, though, is clothed in mist, I cannot see the track

And I must travel forwards and may not once turn back.

But plan and seek for meaning, in all I do and say

The mist will clear and give a glimpse of what may be the way.



I make a reckoning with life, and fate will play its part

To reconcile my actions through my mind and through my heart

To those I love I pass along such wisdom I may find

Seek absolution for my sins where I was less than kind.



Forgiveness is a powerful tool to cauterize the past

Cast off the chains of hatred, and find our peace at last.

“Too hard, too hard,” I hear the cry, “I cannot let this go.”

But past is past and graved in stone, it cannot change, I know.



The richness and the joy of life can conquer fear and woe

And find a new beginning in everywhere we go

The end game and the final steps will be a challenge, true

But hope and love and laughter have the power to see me through.


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