Put it behind you, they said
meaning well .
Put it behind you,
leave it and move on
Toss it over your shoulder
extravagantly like a bride’s bouquet,
no longer needed.
Drop it ,
like a surreptitious wrapper,
with a faint sense of guilt.
Let the kind wind catch it,
like a faded flower or a dead leaf,
not worth chasing .
Do as you please, they said,
meaning well ,
but put it behind you
Leave it rotting
where the bones can only
whisper their lost lessons
to the earth and the empty air.
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