Deborah Horton Writing

The memories they linger
no matter how long it’s been
is it as hard as it seems
to make them go

Why do they stay
are the feelings still there
is it that the love refuses
to go

Or is it something else
guilt perhaps
and the unforgiven
who won’t go

Always in the mind
the first memories awake
or asleep
why don’t they go

Will they stay forever
is there no way to be free
still here
please go