Breaking Our Past by Adam Levon Brown

Breaking our past never seemed so delicious,
The fires in our hands know of nothing but pain

We forgive as we forget, the emptiness inside
Is filled with love, and the sunsets of hope

We cry when we are lied to, we love when we are loved,
And we have faith in everything daily

We are the Sun, we are the Moon, we have faith
That everything will turn out in the end, and it usually does

The brokenness we once collected, cracked sunlight
Falling into begging eyes

We love our pasts, but getting caught in them is never wise.
We laugh with our sadness, and bleed with our happiness

There is love, there is life, and there is hope, the unending serendipity
that we all share, filling the emptiness inside

Adam Levon Brown is an Award-winning poet, Mental health advocate/sufferer, and published Artist. He is the author of six poetry books. He has had his work translated in Spanish, Albanian, Arabic, and Afrikaans. He won the 2019 Blue Nib Chapbook Award, and has been shortlisted for the Erbacce Prize for Poetry four times.