February 2024 Flash Lit 5 (third time) - Delete

Delete

 

Would you do it?

Spotless mind yourself,

like in the movie?

Erase that person

from your cells?

I couldn’t.

It would have to

delete the growth, too,

the things I learned

by crying

and hurting

and struggling.

The only sunshine

I can bear

is the kind I fought

to see.