Regression.

They told us that life goes on

but never really bothered to tell us

what has been lost and that there is

too much future without us: that sort of thing

you perceive upon reflection.

They told us that life goes on

but in the flow of things

you loose the memory of what had come before

or worse still: you loose yourself.

It took us years and some grey hair

to know how it feels to apply the brakes

and arrest the flow of time before time itself

took it away just by not thinking.

To dwell on what had happened

and not progress they told was regression

Now we have to go back to where we were before.

Alfred Grech

21-09-2019