About us draped the past

 

Please understand that we have always

Had the past wrapped around us,

Echoing the moments that we lived…

 

We wore it proudly because it made us

Into the people that we were,

Folding us like origami into individual selves…

Perhaps it was too heavy for some,

That cloak of memories,

But it still was a part

Of the way that

Humanity dressed.