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Altered Memory

- Altered Memory -

When I was just a teenager, I went to a park,
In search of serenity and sometimes adventure.
I remembered it as a peaceful place often still!
Filled with golden memories, as may oft hark,
To one’s nostalgia, when one is more mature.
One day I thought to return there, and so fill,
My curiosity as to whether the place changed.
I am a grown woman now, of different mind…
Less angry, less filled with angst and madness.
The golden afternoon light seemed estranged,
As the shadows all seemed darker, I did find.
Gone was the old magic, and in my sadness…
I realized, the magic was never in the woods,
But in my heart more than those ancient trees.
I drew it out, and it came forth in fair floods…
As for a moment, I felt a familiarly soft breeze.

It did not last.

I could sense the presence of woodland perils,
Unknown to me when I was in younger years!
The thoughts of human beings seemed darkest.
I felt the presence of men and their cruelest ills,
And in that moment of gnosis, I wept my tears.
There was no longer innocence in that forest…
I felt like a little girl lost, and far from my home.
Fear of the big bad wolf was within my bosom,
For an adult woman fears things no child might.
I left that place hastily, and did not there roam,
For I longed for my gardens and their blossom!
They awaited me at my house, with their light…
Where I was safe and secure in new memories.
It is best sometimes to not revisit things gone…
Lest we find them altered, from those dignities,
Which nostalgia creates like the glow of dawn!

A dawn now long past.
Written by Kou_Indigo (Kara L. Pythiana-Ashton)
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