Don't Look Back

This was originally posted on June 14, 2008.

Don't Look Back

Don't look back, she said,

There is nothing there for you, nothing but bitter tears

washing the taste of his sweat out of your mind,

why you want to suffer so and pine,

when the best part of that man

will be gone before the sheets dry on the line?

Her fingers were gnarled and twisted,

her brown eyes blue cast blind,

Now what I tell you, child....

Better to be an old man's baby,

then a young man's fool!

Next time, I nodded vigorously...

sniffled deep and dropped my eyes

to my hands, that lay sweating in my lap

she and I both knowing, it would be years late

and most poorly spent never to be that wise.

Brightfire Woman ~2008