Ease the Past

When the past badly pricks the present 

The present sadly suffers for the past.

If memory stays as the muck of the mind,

The smelly past stinks through the  present.

The fragrance of the past is just a fable.

But fables delight the mind more than facts.

Each memory of past facts needs a Covid test,

To stall the past,as a pandemic of the present.

Forgetting is an easier word to say than to skip.

Without forgetting no one can forgive the past.

The characters that hurt our minds turn monsters

Tearing the peace of our mind into invisible pieces.

The winnable way to find traces of peace for now,

Is to draw a few stop overs of the past for a parade.

Pick out a few pleasant notes of events from memory,

To  reconcile with the past,for a mind- easing cover story.

P.Chandrasekaran