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Reluctant Remembrance*

CCLXXXI ~> Reluctant Remembrance*

(Opus281 ~> Reluctant Remembrance)

(1)
When making a choice between oblivion
And recall, chances are you gravitate
Towards the former.  With indignation,
Remembrance invites remorse in surfeit;
Quest for vengeance, makes harder to forget:
Footprints you find ill-hidden on the sand,
How they got hid, lost lovers understand!
(2)
Getting past the list of wasted chances
Proves more taxing than a Sunday picnic
Flipping through relics of near-romances
Weighs on the conscience waxing sardonic
To anchor reason vexing laconic:
Footprints you find at fringes of your mind
Haunt you like crudities to be refined!
(3)
Sensing the end is near, you venture ask
What was it all about; you wish for more.
Only to find it’s such a daunting task
To keep your vigilance and just ignore
The errors that beset your paths before:
You’re but the hapless shadow of the show
That follows you wherever you might go!
(4)
Coming to this world overtly crying,
You sojourned through without breaking the rules
That you vent a few, there’s no denying;
Though in the guise of shifting protocols
With give and take on some intangibles:
Each floundering denouement of veiled mirth
Keeps hounding you, reminding of your birth!
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*Hook image (NymphsP53.jpg), sequestered uncaptioned, from the Pinterest Nymphs and fairies cyber collection reached my email inbox by subscription.
©(2017), Constancio S Asumen Jr ~> https://allpoetry.com/poem/13690750-CCLXXXI---gt--Reluctant-Remembrance--by-Ace-Lilacs  

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