The long way

For so long

Even when you did call

I chose to go another way

I traversed the paths of sadness

And methodical wilderness

That subsumed my power to recall

And to retrace my faltering steps ...

I moved away

From my memories

From the long branched rooty tentacle of my past

Which I chose not to let entwine...

Now each step back- so painstaking

One by one

Into a different direction, a freedom... a confine

Each tread - the heavy tread of

My past and all I had lost

And chose not to combine

Into a new path leading back and then forth, a climb

But now I move one step at a time

The longer I have been away

The harder it is

But I must make back my way

Through the threatening abyss

Lest it hold sway

Why did I move away...