All Behind

-All Behind-
by Keaton Foster


This road
Here
It goes
Not into
Some distance
Not towards
Some future
But back
Into the past
Whose exactly
To be precise
Mine
Many of days
In every way
I’ve moved along
Leaving
Thus
Never again seeing
Refusing
To head back
To return
To where I’m from
To what has made me
I won’t
Each step
Since then
A blessing
Each moment
An escape
All that hurts
Remains
In said place
Back there
Down that road
The one
I won’t again go
My plan
Modus operandi
Is that I
Will never
Step back
Not willingly
In any way
I will fight the war
Winning each battle
I will refuse
All that they did
And
How they embraced me
I will go
Only forward
Or I’ll stay
Right here
Either way
I’ll be moving on
All behind
Back there
In the past
In that place
Tortured
I once was
By all
That has been
By all
That once was
No longer
Is that the case
I’ve found
My own way
My own pavement
Below my feet
Is freedom
Ahead of me
Endless things seem
Behind me
All behind
Is what has made me
And what has forced me
I’m here
In this place
Because of all that I did
To leave the past
Where it belongs…


All Behind
Written by Keaton Foster Copyright © 2015.