No Looking Back

I think it was yesterday
Sure she said it was
She’d known about it for weeks
Yesterday was the right time to bring it up
It started months ago
Things were difficult back then
I can’t remember the exact day
Back then
But why would I
You don’t look back, do you
I mean, you don’t think to yourself
Last month I started an affair
People don’t do that
They might say
Last month I ended the affair
It was really about a year earlier
We got talking
Just about past relationships
I mean, you don’t think for a minute
You’re actually entering into a past relationship
But in hindsight maybe you should
It’s been a month since we split up
Looking back
I can see where it all went wrong
But that was yesterday
No point looking back now.

Reviews

[Chris Shaw]

I think it can be difficult to totally live in the present, living for the day etc. Many people do reflect on the past. I can perhaps understand it more if you are elderly and have lost people who have been dear to you. I think we can learn by looking back and reflecting on mistakes and so try harder in the future, but our aim should be to look ahead. I am reminded of a phrase, Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of your life. I think that is good advice. I enjoyed the read, thank you Paul.

Chris

[Donna]

Don't ever look back. That is the past and it should stay there. Always look ahead!

[Einstein Noodle]

well ............that's one way of looking at it ;} i like the questions your poem asks..it draws me right in .. almost asking my advice :))))))))))) we look back and realize truths ...in arrears ..the trick is to snatch them up for the present ..so in the future we can recognize ;) and perhaps steer clear ...:))))))))))))))))))))))))) but that would make us wise beyond our passions eh!? love ya man! always get wrapped up in your writes
E.

[Paul Bell]

To many yesterdays. But that was yesterday. lol

[sette]

wow the last line said it all. the process of moving on is about to start

[Paul Bell]

Always move on. Brighter around the corner.

[sette]

that i agree

[Mrudula Rani]

No point in looking back now, but it is all spread before our eyes, and takes giant's effort not to over analyzing the past. Now and then it over takes us and sometimes brings closer of sorts, by examining it we know when all went to hell in a hand basket!

[Paul Bell]

quite like the idea of going to hell in a handbasket. lol

[Jimmy Yetts]

Pensive and perceptive poetry.
Have spent most of my old age being pestered by the past; to be honest, I'm sick of reviewing old scripts--playing all-too-familiar roles.
For me, looking back is just looking around.

[Paul Bell]

Agree, you should never look back.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

maybe we do look back just a bit too much,even before we are done with whatever we are looking back upon...
this made me reflect...

j.

[Paul Bell]

Don't know if we look back cos history is supposed to tell us something. Maybe telling us not to look back.