This Time Around Is For Me

Traduced! Forgive but don’t forget is the adage How can one heal whilst storing the ugly image? It’s the lie entailed by cowardice… So a mind, replete with forgiven but unforgotten Turns irrational and presumes in verbiage rotten! Imminently, bruises need a poultice… Mired in all the untoward-pardoned-unforgettable Eclipsed visages twist-taunt into the judge-mental as he hammers over a ripped bodice… Rage absorbed takes on a caliber hard to disown Of a volcanic-type verisimilitude; shield unknown under the buried-remembered, malice… Nursed so long in remembrance, turns corrupt Drinks in all the stored negatives to then erupt in wanton caprice… Surely, forgetting is requisite to forgiving, for how is one to enjoy the present living? Odious history’s peace… Riding the past to fill moments in beauty Memory retention is the declared reality Enunciated with declining hubris… (5/27/21)