Challenge
You receive an unusual email message. It is a letter from one of the mistakes you’ve made last year, which has come to life. Write what your mistake wrote to you. Prose or poetry, any form.
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Indelible Ink
Run, run, run, put me behind you
a line of ghosts leading
into the horizon
I am the mistake you made
I will not allow a retake
Run, run, run, put me behind you
I am etched forever on your skin
a vibrant red map of ‘it’s too late’
a dark foreboding shadow
following your trail in zig zags
Run, run, run, put me behind you
am I really the mistake
or are you the real illusion?
leading the way to no redemption
a two step tripping into the fog
Run, run, run, put me behind you
where no one will notice me
but you cannot escape
I remember what you did
you can never wash me off!