Yesterdays, Yesterday, Today

A Poem by Connie Wong

Written on March 21, 2008

Yesterdays were yesterday
they were not today

I had different hopes
in different people yesterdays

Today I might want to quit hoping
that life would treat me better
and love would be on my side

I might want to embrace my legs
so they would cover my heart
and protect it from being broken again

Yesterdays were not today
but still they were precious to me
not as memories
but as lessons I learned in life
but as traumas that forever will haunt me
until I forget what pain is
and let a sincere kiss soothe my doubts

Give me the Alzheimer of heart, oh Almighty
and bless me with an idle mind