A Response

How graphic and descriptive

Were the words depicted

That sent me from my present

To the time and places I most resent

Why would I want to read a word

Or one or two or three or four

Just to open a door

I had closed so many times before

And how many would say

that it's good to be aware

But would you have said that

If you had actually been there?

Who wants to be reminded

Of  so many terrible things before

For it's here and now in which we try an live for

So please stop hurting me

With your false reminders

And send me a smile

To Help the past be left behind us.