You Have Changed

October 12, 2020

I've watched you weep for burned bridges
Long for times now long gone
I've seen you cringe under accusing eyes
Clinging to the past, unable to let go

It's easy to sit among the past times
To talk to ghosts and memories
Wishing for another chance at it
To go back and get it right

But you can never change the past
It's written in stone
I know these words won't reach you today
but maybe tomorrow, they will

When you look back at the pain you caused
Still stuck inside those moments long ago
You feel them again and again
As if they were all happening right now

But they aren't happening now
They already happened long ago
When you try to remember them differently
It only tells me one thing

You have changed
You understand the right thing to do
So what happens next is your choice
And you've learned enough to make the right one

#Poetry #Life #MovingOn #DualPoem