The Past Is Gone For A Reason

I thought we could change our pasts,

I see myself in replay mode,

Where all my hurtful mistakes are erased and forgotten.

Let it go and never look back.

But all that hurt and betrayal

Might be buried down in the ground.

Realizing those hurts can be healed,

They taught me many lessons.

The past is gone for a reason,

A reflection of me in the mirror

Showing all the mistakes

That have been inside me.

The past trials left me wounded.

Those little voices say I caused them; they don’t matter at all.

They remain in the past, and I can't go back and reverse it.

Even if I try closing my thoughts,

I still hear those whispers again.

All of them say I can't pass them.

Those words tell me I'm unlikable and useless.

I know it's the past; please don’t come back.

Why do I battle my traumatizing trials?

Those shadows, like every person from my past,

Left me with criticism and bullets.

They might break me down

As my tears dried from pain.

I only built this suit that pushes me through the night.

I know I can overcome these trials and revelations that test my fate.

I will break those chains that bind my faith and hope.

Without the errors, it made me who I am.

It might bring me down,

But I know my worth.

I will no longer look back on it.

For all that pain I've kept inside me,

I’ve tried to move on from all of it.

All those voices echo in my ears

Will no longer remain in my heart.

I know I might have passed the test.

It built me a thicker skin.

Those words are nothing but bullets

That won’t break me down anymore.

The Past Is Gone For A Reason