Valerie

A Poem to My Former Self

Some days,

I feel more in touch with you than id like.

Some days, I like to look at you as the past version of myself,

other days,

I look at you

as a piece of me that won’t go away.

I wish you could unlearn all of the things that you were forced to realize;

I wish you could relearn some of the things I used to have.

 

The timing was ill-starred.

I parted with you as quickly as you came.

You always seem to come back to me at the most unfortunate times.

Sometimes, I wonder if I’m no longer who you are.

 

Maybe,

at this time,

I am simply a version of myself that resents you.

Maybe,

soon,

there will be another version of me

that is nothing

like you.