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Never Really Dead/Choose Your Friends Wisely

Poem~Don't Turn Around

By Kelli Sheckler-AmsdenPublished 4 months ago • Updated 4 months ago • 1 min read
Never Really Dead/Choose Your Friends Wisely
Photo by Katherine Kromberg on Unsplash

that's the past...

it's behind you...

what's dead shouldn't be conjured back

but that's just what they do

when they got you

stir the demons that made you like that

It's over...

it's finished....

isn't that what they promised to you

we can go on like it never happened

unless it serves their agenda to review

skeletons sit like dust in your closet

they can't wait to show them all around

a vast array of fibers and composites

that will bring your whole world crumbling down

don't worry, take a deep breath

you'll get through it

just be sure that you leave them on top

or they'll be forced to send reinforcements

in their best efforts to get you to stop

the past is the past till it isn't

looking over your shoulder won't do

a rewound, portable traveling prison

for the things you wish you didn't do

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Kelli Sheckler-Amsden

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    Written by Kelli Sheckler-Amsden