verecund

I went back in time
and found a younger me
leaving poems behind,

unpublished,
unread,
waiting in the dark.

I brought them forward
one by one,

like messages
from a life
I had forgotten living.

Different years.
Different loves.
Different wounds.

But somehow
the same voice
was waiting there.

So this book
is not new.

It is a door
I finally remembered
how to open.