PostPoems Be Artistic. Be Creative. Be Inspired!

To Lady Rae---whose comments have inspired me mightily.

Written by DC (and not me). Have posted it here after her approval :)
She had written it in prose form, which I "converted" into poetry.
Credit goes to her for channelizing her thoughts beautifully.

I can be freed if I want to.  I can be freed if I don't want all the negativity to get to me.  Though sometimes you want to forget a memory or if you attempt to repress it, I learned it never leaves you.  Sometimes the strongest emotion you felt in an event is never forgotten.    Whether it may be fear, anger, sorrow, or regret, it stays with us.  And with emotion the memory you want gone is still there.  But eventually we all bring a sort of "death" to it and in doing so, we move forward with these memories with us.  As with death, so there's also life.  And for me, this is a new beginning...