Memory
The excavation of our memories can glue us to the past,
unearthing shards of former lives into which we’ve been cast.
Our mind a virtual theater that draws us through its curtain,
sometimes half-remembering and hardly ever certain
of what is fact and what is mind’s creative fabrication—
the truth eluding us a bit in time’s confabulation.
Its draw narcotic, we accede once more to its allure.
Is it history or fable? How can we know for sure?
Prompts for the day are theater, allure, elude, excavation.Second Image by Tsunami Green on Unsplash. All others by me.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
I love your first sentence…what powerful images those words brought to my mind…
“The excavation of our memories can glue us to the past,”
– Brilliant!
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Writing certainly encourages memory more than any other thing for me.
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True!
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Beautifully done Judy, a classical way to bring back memories.
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❤️❤️❤️
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Very evocative, but do we have to know for sure?
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Not only do we not need to, but we can’t.
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It’s the other way around, darling: not only can’t, but we don’t need to.
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