Suddenly That Day

 Suddenly that day
 I caught myself red-handed!
 Yes, I was thinking of you,
 I was thinking of those old times.
  
 And I truly don't know
 why the mind keeps doing this!
 Why does it return again and again
 to those very places
 where it can never,
 ever really go back!
  
 Perhaps this is what healing means.
 Perhaps this is what punishment means.
 Or it could be
 that this is how it reminds me—
 how I came to be in this place.