a little down time on a busy day
there’s a difference
between living in the past
and simply replaying it
more as an exercising
of the brain
than anything else
no longer interested in
keeping the demons
at bay long ago released
and left to their own
devices
some as far away as
Okinawa
others right down the street
memory is the epitome
of being human
—depending upon the light
of day the story always
changing
or simply tweaked
due to the circumstance
but always according to his
or her own gospel
february two thousand twenty-five
copyright j matthew waters
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