Painful Memories

It's about either holding on to our past of empty vision or moving forward from the pain.

Painful Memory

The room is dim,

slides of photos begin to flicker

memories fill the room

until it reveal blanks

Empty shots

repeating over and over.

You hear the air of the machine

follow by a fainted music box

playing in one of the bedrooms

an empty crib

a broken doll

You lift the doll

close to your chest,

you feel the pain within

You can't bear to imagine

the horrid assumptions,

but reality begins to sink in.

She's gone,

Where to?

Why?

How could this have happened?

You hold on to the grief,

making yourself insane,

as the music repeats itself.

You stare into the empty walls

of photos you took down,

What is there to do?

What is left to live for?

You must remember,

this was your past,

a child was broken

but a woman is now healed.

You must move forward,

so you can be the voice

for a girl who was once lost

can soon be returned.

The you before the trauma,

is gone.

The you today is standing

even if all you can muster

both feet on the ground

you've conquered your first step.

Don't allow this painful memory

define you,

dictate the woman you are meant to be,

Otherwise,

the music box is only playing

for an empty room.

(c) Chong Kim, 2012

Reviews

[Relic]

Wow, this is so sad and eerie. There's a lot of emotion in this and the music box in the other room adds to the dramatic feel of the poem. Really well done.