Yesterday’s Song

Yesterday whispers in your ear

Persuading you to stay,

To not slam the door shut,

To not run as if barefoot on burning coals into tomorrow.

Yesterday makes it clear

How your reflection will never lie,

As familiar features become worn

Capturing the traces of a parent’s face in your gaze.

Yesterday begins to sneer

At the phrases the grown-ups used to say

Blooming from your lips,

While you take another step to the right.

Yesterday compels you to hear

The famous song about your troubles being far away,

Before your heart became a stone, your constant companion,

Before your exchange of goodness, for a coat woven of perdition.

Yesterday gift wraps all your fears,

Revealing the old you as its perfect design,

Yet to drink from this cup of forgetfulness

Means to forever lose all you will learn, all you will love.