you can't pound a nail where someone's already pounded a stake

maybe that statement is true for reasons other than the intended.
maybe he actually meant that someone can't ever be someone's "first" again.
Or break someone's heart the same way again.
You can't keep going around in circles, digging a rut in the same worn path again, because
obviously
you've left that far behind
and moved on.
right?
every direction i turn, i try to leave the past in the past.
Instead of flashing lights in my rearview,
Someone flashes a picture.
A glimpse of myself
A snippet of no one I ever was.
I dust off an apron,
It's scent wafts through the air as it's shaken
Relieving it of it's burden.
Years of hard time.
The strings wrap themselves around my middle
Cinched tight
Constricting, unforgiving arms of domesticity.
I was never you.
Never near you.
I fed you with what I had
but it was never enough to fill you.