Why Do People Look Back? Poem by RIC BASTASA

they look back because it is important
perhaps something so important was left

there and there is a need to take it back
to make life move on and be normal again

they look back because the past is worth
the simmer, the sound of the past must have

been so lovely to the ears, and recalling
emboldens the weak to become lion-hearted

but i am looking back for some reasons
i left a part of myself in there and here i am

bringing my body without a soul, taking an
arm without my fingers, a chest without a heart.

i must look back because she is there and she
is dying, and i still have other stories to confess, .

because there is still a need for me to be forgiven.