Canvas.

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I tell them I'm over it.
But I'm not.
I don't think I ever will be.

The memory is like an ink stain on the canvas that is my mind.
No matter how many times I wash,
scrub,
scream,
it remains,
there.

Faded, but there.

Then,
a trigger -
a word,
or a look,
or a smell,
or the rain...
and it all comes rushing back.

As if a whole bucket of paint is tossed at my canvas,
completely encompassing every inch of it,
absorbing into every last fibre,
taking it over.

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