Looking Back

On a conscious happy stroll 

conscious because being happy is an effort 

I suddenly look back 

Look back and back again 

turning my face around my neck 

In restless looking back 

I can see memories behind 

steady to start with

Then they slowly crawl 

slow at first and then pick up the pace

I see some good ones first 

pretty and beautiful sunny days 

happy at heart I turn around 

and take a step towards them 

I really want to touch a moment or two 

of kisses and fun 

But then the darkness rises from nowhere 

The rising makes a weird noise 

I see many horrible things 

I feel the same pain 

oh it hurts me again..

On a runaway path

I hold on to the runaway heart 

I plan the escape again 

I run till I drop 

Constantly looking back.. 

 

Reviews

[Samuel Dickens]

I think we all must look back at times, but as you infer, there may be perils. Certainly, we don't want our present sullied by the past. My favorite line--"I really want to touch a moment or two
of kisses and fun..." Oh, yes, that's the sort of thing worth experiencing again, if only in thought.

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Very nice poem! I take a stroll down memory lane sometimes also. It's very interesting.

[Glen Yumang Manese]

On a conscious happy stroll
conscious because being happy is an effort
I suddenly look back
Look back and back again
turning my face around my neck
In restless looking back
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On a conscious happy stroll
conscious because being happy is an effort
I suddenly look back
Look back and back again
turning my face around my neck
It's restless looking back
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I believe that's how you wanted this...the verse puts one in the situation...looking back...and doing what it takes just to be happy...yet as this ends its anything but happy...you show that its a revolving door...comes back again...

[Kyle Lawrence]

I really enjoyed this poem! I can relate with looking back at memories with joy and to the future with fear. Beautiful.

[Roger Turgeon]

Satchel Paige once said "Never look back something might be gaining on you". True for people and emotions. Hands you the pain killer you were looking for. Take this and look out the window.

[Sami Khalil]

Looking back we see a runaway past, a hurtful escape, a rising darkness and a stiff necked conditions. We look back for some wants to go back and some wants to move forward in life. Excellent...:).............

[The Rock And Roll Cowbo..]

Memories can be a tricky thing, sometimes we remember them how we want them to be and sometimes they get distorted through our fears.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

it is very sad when we have to be consciously happy, when we have to work so hard at it...because the looking back is so dangerous...because the past keeps haunting us so effectively that we cannot enjoy the present kisses and fun...

this one was like i was reading it and being tugged from behind, something pulling on my shirt trying to get me to turn around and look at my past.