Casting My Mind Back

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"To reminisce can bring daggers

that stab your heart leaving scars

and jagged pieces of you

and other recollections can bring a smile."

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I reminisce, I miss . . . the past all the joy ... the sadness and grief I reminisce and look back on my life and remember it all in detail the pain and the happiness ~ it is a curse to be able to retain the past to be able to call it up with all the dreadful regret ~ I muse over missed chances all my failures, blunders and mishaps the people I let go the opportunities I passed up I regret too late ... ~in reflections I think of things I could have said things I could have done things I left unsaid and now it is too late ~ but among my memories I recall some lovely nostalgia too like the smell of Grandma's apple pie and drives in the county with Mom finding some out of the way . . . place to lunch oh, family get togethers bring me a tear and pets we had over the years make me weep ~ the past comes rolling over me like a mighty wave and I am helpless to hold it back so, I let it flow over me ~ ... and again and again ... I reminise, I miss __________________ April 1, 2021 Poetry/Free Verse/Casting My Mind Back Copyright Protected, ID 04-13423-235-01 All Rights Reserved, 2021, Constance La France Written for the Standard contest, I Reminisce, I Miss sponsor, James Edward Lee Sr., Judged 04/13/2021 First Place