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Memories

Memories, leftovers from the past

yesterdays, past weeks, past years.

What should I do?

Do I just sit and savor them

relishing the good ones and ruing the bad?

Or, do I toss them all

like I’d do garbage or old clothes?

Can they really help me to grow, expand,

to have a better, brighter, tomorrow?

Or will hanging on to them

rehash the pain, rekindle my sorrow?