after you came up for air
you fell into your past again
after allowing it to seep
into your present—
it was all under your control,
it has always been

do not weep over moments
you have already lived,
suffering you have already endured,
pain that has already healed,
do not put yourself through
the agony of the past,
do not relive it
do not relive it
do not relive it

forgive yourself
and move on,
the past
is over.

— 
naira badawi