The Hand of the past

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Like deadweight, it drags me down.
I push forward, but it pulls me back:
The iron hand of the past
Clamped on the present
And future-
my present, my future.
My past infiltrates the present,
My present interrogates the past
And its unrelenting force
Leaves me
Caught between the past
And the present, unable to move
Beyond this.

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