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THE PAST (written spoken words)
<p>Guy, Do you know something about the past?</p><p><br/></p><p>The past is like a complete cloth you wore in your present.</p><p>You cannot wear another one and function normally unless you take off the former.</p><p><br/></p><p>The past is a garment.</p><p>Sometimes it is silk.</p><p>Sometimes it is sackcloth.</p><p><br/></p><p>But if you sleep in it, wake in it, walk in it,</p><p>you will smell like yesterday.</p><p><br/></p><p>Could you imagine how many years you have been wearing one cloth?</p><p>Perhaps over unimaginable decades.</p><p><br/></p><p>Say Kai my past "Kai My Past"</p><p><br/></p><p>Rivers keep flowing down from your cheeks.</p><p>Even the breeze in places of worship recognizes your fragrance of sorrow,</p><p>when all you need is to pull off the dirty cloth.</p><p><br/></p><p>The past is a shadow that follows at noon</p><p>and stretches at sunset.</p><p>If you chase it, you lose your direction.</p><p>If you deny it, you lose your lesson.</p><p><br/></p><p>Repeat after me:</p><p>SAY MY PAST</p><p>“MY PAST”</p><p><br/></p><p>Is like an empty bottle.</p><p>When it is filled with water, you call it a bottle of water.</p><p>When it is emptied and filled with Coca Cola,</p><p>it is ignorance to still call it a bottle of water. it becomes a bottle of Coca-Cola</p><p><br/></p><p>Content can change your title.</p><p>But these version of your old content will not change itself.</p><p>Empty it.</p><p><br/></p><p>An old adage says,</p><p>“When the snake sheds its skin, it does not crawl back into it.”</p><p>Why do you hold on to pain that has expired?</p><p>Why do you polish regret like a trophy?</p><p><br/></p><p>The past can teach.</p><p>The past can be refined.</p><p>The past can be corrected.</p><p><br/></p><p>I dare you to ask, How?</p><p><br/></p><p>Your past is like a pot used to prepare rice last night.</p><p>Can such pot be used to prepare another meal today unwashed?</p><p>No way. It is unhealthy.</p><p><br/></p><p>That is precisely what your past is doing to you.</p><p>How much unhealthiness have you been practicing all this while ?</p><p><br/></p><p>How many meals of yesterday</p><p>have you been eating from the same unwashed pot today ?</p><p><br/></p><p>Come on, you can do better.</p><p>say it aloud, "I can do better"</p><p><br/></p><p>You cannot drive forward</p><p>while staring only at the rear mirror.</p><p>You look at it only when you need to align your mind</p><p>for safe movement ahead.</p><p><br/></p><p>Take off the past cloth.</p><p>Fold it.</p><p>Keep the lesson.</p><p>Leave the weight.</p><p><br/></p><p>Because the future does not fit</p><p>on a body still dressed in yesterday. that is filthy.</p><p><br/></p><p>© Muhammad Mercurial 🖋️</p>
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