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Poem Details
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| Title: | Erasure |
| Date Submitted: | 3/10/2008 |
| Email: | crimson_surrender@hotmail.com |
| Poem: |
I am not good at setting down roots. I need the sensation of running away, of escaping and starting cleanly; a new untainted canvas. To put distance in kilometers if nothing else between my past and my present selves. To erase who I was from living memory. I do not want to know that person. I do not want to be that person. I don't want to look back and see the places I have been to and the people I have been. I don't want to be reminded of my past. I want to believe that it does not matter, to believe that I am not that person and that her future is not mine. But I am, and it is. History ties a person down. It is an anchor I have cast off. The faces and places I have no attachments to cannot miss me when I'm gone.... |