PAST
an underlined phrase on a yellowing page of a book a word scribbled on a dry leaf pressed between the pages of an old journal a cluster of stars as you look up the midnight sky a scar on your left elbow, a scene in a movie a scent worn by a stranger who brushed past you at the mall the back of someone turning a bend stories in your heart, memories. a place that brings back happy times a picture that fetches lonely tears a thought that lights up your countenance a laugh that reminds you of a face a song that leads you back to the past a love that has left you, memories. finished, done, over, ended no going back, no redemption dead, wrecked, terminated, through cannot love, yet cannot unlove so live, thrive, in my memories past...