Away From My Past.

In my life I have a past,

It made me who I am.

I have no regrets

I wouldn’t change a thing,

I don’t live there anymore.

Yet memories linger in the quiet night,

Soft echoes of a time now left behind,

Mistakes and lessons shining faint but bright,

Shaping my heart and patterning my mind.

I have travelled roads both shadowed and fair,

Found hope in sorrow, laughter in my pain,

Though ghosts may call, I do not tarry there,

The present’s sun now dries the old, cold rain.

With every dawn, I carve a path anew,

The future’s promise glimmers in my sight,

For though my story started with that view,

Today I walk in my own chosen light.

The past’s embrace has opened wide the door—

I thank it kindly, but I live once more.