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Those Places
I’ve banished certain memories to the corners of my mind,
to those dark and untapped places where they’d be hard to find.
Like a sunken ship rests silently at the bottom of the sea, they too, lie in dark shadows where they deserve to be.
For the grief they caused the first time was more than I could bear,
and since I’m forced to keep them,
I choose to keep them there.
Those moments I could not believe what was happening was real now gather in “Those Places” with the wounds that never heal.
These memories do not bring me joy, but pain, regret and sorrow. Why should pieces of my yesterday be part of my tomorrow?
I’ve tried to stow away the sadness, what I’ve seen and where I’ve been, but my cold and heartless mind makes me revisit them again.
The events that took my breath away relentlessly unwinding, recorded on some twisted film
that my brain keeps rewinding.
All the tears and the anguish,
the wretchedness and rotten -- though exiled to “Those Places,” still refuse to be forgotten.
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