The Reckless and the Wanting

Wrestling with the past. Anticipating the future.

Image by Massimiliano Sarno on Unsplash.

Even in the process of moving forward, the past continues to make itself known and bear upon the present; even haunting the future. At times it is all we can do not to look down the alleys of memory at decisions made and their influence, and to reflect on stray words that would have been better left unsaid.

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The Reckless and the Wanting

I weigh my worth,
my foot set forth...
	but eyes are down the alley
and reel for glaciered time that’s ground
	the heights we climbed to valleys.

Wayward ways
are all my days.
	The past is ever calling.
I find myself — and yet again —
	into the future falling.

What power lurks
in careless words —
	the reckless are the wanting.
Beneath our steps the carnage burns:
	the past, the future haunting.