I have two faces:
One looking forward;
One looking back;
Neither present now
People, places, friends
Yet to be seen
The other Mariah
Holds me back
A lead weight
Still lingers
From anther time
'What are you afraid of?'
I ask the Other
She says that she
Is not afraid
But rather
That I should stay
'It's all your fault,'
She croons
Softly, seductively, convincingly
And I believe her
She's right, you know
I can only glimpse
A wide open collection
Prospects, ideas, dreams
Of who I could become
Before the other Mariah
Yanks the chain
Around my neck
Tighter into the past
I sink
(before anyone asks, that isn't me in the picture)
It's hard to let go of the past, it clings to us as much as part of us clings to it. But there is no healing without moving forward.
ReplyDeleteYou have recognised that you are chained to your past, now you have to break those chains...
~Shiv
I'd realized that awhile ago.
ReplyDeleteI don't know how to move forward.
It's so hard.
Oh, you got me - I was just about to ask whether that was you in the picture...
ReplyDeleteSuzy x