Hello HenryM.
Thank you for another thoughtful and insightful post, which offers to me the opportunity to reply in-verse.
On this subject I am a bit spoilt for choice in terms of which rhymes to share either about the past the present or the future. However, in the interests of sequential reasoning, I will post two rhymes about ’the past’.
Best wishes
Bill
THE PAST.
The past is all that went before.
Long ago and times of yore.
Importantly it is now done.
It won’t come back for anyone.
But history repeats itself.
Not just from books upon the shelf.
It can be cruel and most unkind.
When it repeats within my mind.
Somehow my memories induce.
All past traumas and abuse.
My past comes back and will haunt me.
So I am never ever free.
In my past I was put upon.
Robbed of hope ‘till it was gone.
I was bullied and exploited.
With no fight and maladroited.
A flashback, vision or nightmare.
Are stark reminders it’s still there.
All that suffering and the pain.
Coming back time and again.
Although it happens when you’re young.
You grow up and you’re highly-strung.
Your ultra-sensitive to those things.
Within the traumas memory brings.
Unloved, unwanted and rejected.
Certainly was not respected.
How does one deal with all that shit.
Let alone get over it.
Well, I have found a way at last.
To put my traumas in the past.
I don’t look back but try instead.
To focus on the way ahead.
B. Withers 2012
(In: ‘Constructive Conversations Inversed’ 2012 p.300)
THE PAST 2.
The past is over, dead and gone.
So I won’t let it linger on.
The past is only history.
So I won’t let it get to me.
The future is a great transformer.
Changing views on former trauma.
All that past abuse you knew.
Is no longer any use to you.
Reflecting on experience.
Can right that frightful miscreance.
Now here’s the really clever bit.
You can clearly learn from it.
You will find it so supportive.
Reflecting on the positive.
The negatives will fade away.
And you will find a better way.
With all abuse placed in the past.
You can move along at last.
You will find you’re on a roll.
Once you start to take control.
Though rarely written in my rhymes.
Remember that there were good times.
Negatives come fast and cheap.
So positives are the ones to keep.
Move away from all the badness.
Thus avoiding future sadness.
Try to think it as a folly.
Wallowing in melancholy.
I’ll keep my future clear in sight.
And always try to do what’s right.
My past is over, dead and gone.
So I won’t let it linger on.
B. Withers 2012
(In: ‘Constructive Conversations Inversed’ 2012 p.301)