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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....