Leave It Be...

When all you knew is now not true

Questions raised

Leaving hollow wounds weeping through

The warmer layers of nostalgia

A sense of cold could grip on tight

But leave it be 
Because as much as you might

Need or yearn
To understand 
To learn

Hunting reason today will not

Answer what came before
It's too damn jumbled

Confused to restore

Leave the past where it's meant to be

Distant, faded 
and 
Solitary

Step right back
Sit on your heels

Watch the ripples of the murky past
Collide, progress but gradually still
Don't stir them more

The feelings won’t last

Another day, another time

That puddle will be just calm

A brownish lake of some

Past mistake

Stirring that now will cloud the colours

That wash over the day you’re in

A burning brightness that

Breathes within

Tugging on that thread of thought

Will not satisfy your heart or mind

But leave you empty, fraught or
Senselessly caught

Asking more and more

Trying to fathom what came before

Journeys of life bring us here

Shape our responses

Mold our now

To revisit something just to understand

To change the track

By looking way back

Would be a one way ride to doom

And you’ve returned

 Survived

Come

Leave the past 
Let it be

Distant, faded 
and 
Solitary

Journeys are just 

What they are meant to be

And you've arrived
Just in time 
You're not too soon
And
It's not too late
In fact some may say 
It's
Probable Fate

 You are right where you're meant to be. 
So keep walking along this meandering track, 
looking forward and not once turning back...