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You receive an unusual email message. It is a letter from one of the mistakes you’ve made last year, which has come to life. Write what your mistake wrote to you. Prose or poetry, any form.
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Indelible Ink

Run, run, run, put me behind you

a line of ghosts leading

into the horizon

I am the mistake you made

I will not allow a retake

Run, run, run, put me behind you

I am etched forever on your skin

a vibrant red map of ‘it’s too late’

a dark foreboding shadow

following your trail in zig zags

Run, run, run, put me behind you

am I really the mistake

or are you the real illusion?

leading the way to no redemption

a two step tripping into the fog

Run, run, run, put me behind you

where no one will notice me

but you cannot escape

I remember what you did

you can never wash me off!