MY PAST

My past has haunted me

My childhood

My children

No more

If I do not leave it all

In the past

It will kill me

I choose to live

Therefore none of it

Will haunt me another day

I will smile in the mornings

Welcome a new day

I may grieve from time to time

For what could have been

But no matter

It is what it is and that is not me

I wish them all well

But I will wonder no more

Why they will not speak

I have a voice, and I will speak

To any and all who wish to speak to me

But to the dark shadows and the past

I will speak no more

Speak of no more

Let it all lie silent in a grave

Of its own design

It is not mine and I do not own it

I am a free man

I choose to live that way

For now and ever.