The Future is Past By Nelsa Tiemtoré Free at last. The future is the past as the past predicts the future and the future reflects the past. an endless cycle of laundry that wrings me over and over to the point that I’m too wrinkled to even reach the dryer for folding rinse, rinse the wounds, wash out the blood, and patch it up with bandages but the scars still scream battle cries they beg to be shown and understood but refusing to reveal them is easier just scrub harder and faster till the skin is raw and clean till it cracks again and bleeds The wound deepens. Free at last. 31
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