By Em Hatemore
Date: 2011 Nov 23
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Reach.

In all of my desperate junctures
when fear settled deep into
my subconscious
trailing cold skeletal fingertips
of despair into my heart
I did not reach out

When the panic slammed
Into my chest
When sorrow bore cracks
Into the wall around my sanity
I did not reach out

In anguish and suffering
I moved forward
Only glimpsing back
Long enough to remember
You are the past

To reach out to the past
Is a desperate measure
A fool’s attempt
At conjuring ghosts

Move forward
And let the past be.