Tuesday, August 31, 2021

The End of Echoes (poem)

She stood by the door
drink in her hand, focused on the future

while I walked in, haunted by the past.
 

How do we deal with familiar faces
that belong to unfamiliar people?

echoes of the past, but so much more...
 

I cling to a fading past
what importance do you have

a decade after it all tumbled down?
 

Would it be arrogant or foolish
to let your memory be overwritten–

to put an end to the echoing?
 

-Zero