Notes From The Past (poem)

I sometimes feel this way when I go back to visit my home town. As time passes, we view things differently and it helps us sift through to healing.

It is amazing what can trigger a memory, good or bad, and then the same flood of emotions returns, just like it was yesterday.

Voted up and awesome. So many things play on our memory. Fantastic hub.

Memories can be bitter-sweet - I love the way you have expressed it in your poem.

Very interesting and haunting.

This is very beautiful, memories can hurt or make you happy. My wish for you is happiness...

"From terrors abuse and hardships I’d flee

And still they found paths to nightmares to play

Those things which yet toy with my memory"

I once had three changes of cloths for school. I prayed that

no one would notice. I made excuses for the switch marks

that broke the skin on my legs. It was a hell that no child should ever live in. It is here in anonymity, that I can let

some truths see the light of day. It messes up the very basic

thinking of a child, when the person who they look to for love, protection and guidance, are the very people who take a switch

and whip them 'till the blood runs down their legs and across their back.

Martin, you touched those hidden memories, but you did so

in a piece of work which is beautifully written.

Our past is never far behind us, is it?

DJ.

Martin, you have captured those moments of abuse and the

memories and nightmares that forever plague me as an adult.

Your work is pure genius.

You have found a way to bring grace and beauty to words

that tell your story.

I don't recall this song. It perfectly describes the plight of

a soul in need.

Interesting about memories, sometimes one can't escape their past experiences