Prose Poetry — The Past and I

I march on, thinking of my past as “I”. I hold on to it, like it means everything.
Memories, family, home. A little bit of past as if it is a real place somewhere far away. As if I could take a bus and go, I just have to tell my boss and set an auto-reply at work. Then, I can go.
I will meet my friends, it will be just like old days. I will sit at the porch with my mom, we will talk about that movie. As if all this will happen again.
I send a message, I like a photo. I write “sorry I missed your wedding", as if everything we have is not just the past. It has been 13 years. It could be 30 more.
A real look into morrow…
Work, dinner, I have to fix the plumbing. Where are all the people I was sure I’d see again?
Why was I?
