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Message From The Past

by Lance D. Smith

You've kept me close

While trying to escape from me

I am the past that you run from

But today I come in peace

I influence your decisions

Created your personality

I am the same old script

That hides the truth you seek

I've caused you anger

I?ve created pain

I told you ?What?s the use?

Life was just the same old thing

There?s no need to resolve or change me

To hold on or forgive

You have the key to your freedom

And how you truly want to live

I offer you this secret

Because you gave me life

I no longer want to hurt you

It's time to set things right

We hold each other prisoners

Locked together in a vault

Simply release me from your memory

My only power is in your thoughts

You can let me go

I?ll be on my way

Unless you want to live in me

I no longer have a say

There?s no need to justify me

There?s no case to defend

Send home all the witnesses

And begin your life again

Life is Love

Expressed new in you each day

It flows through you

Like a river on its way

You can create

More than I can contain

I?ll only hinder you

By holding onto the same

So the secret I offer

My only power is in your thoughts

You have to think hard to create me

I?m not real at all

You?ll find new life

Turning your thoughts away from me

And I?ll die from this secret

Now that I?ve set you free

 

[Imagine]

Is he talking about his soul in this poem?

 

[g-funk]

Now that poem is just BRILLIANT.

A print-out-and-keep - but my printer just broke