When ever I am advised
that I 'should update my life',
or repent of my past - the better
to absorb the latest version of virtue -
I don't know how to respond.
I know my past, it's rights and wrongs,
and what of it that I should not repeat
-most of my childhood/being parented
the conditions of which I am now glad
were unique to those times anyway.
So why should I change what I say
about myself and my past, when change
becomes one cheap lie after another
to fit around the latest in consumerism
I am who I am whether I want to lump it,
like it, or live in a past where I know I belong.
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