the past ~!~

looking into the past
i've realized
the girl i was
is no longer the girl i am

the girl from years ago
is different
almost entirely different
from who i am now


shamed by mistakes from the past
angered at the decisions made
perplexed by past thought processes

that girl from the past
is not, could not have been me

and yet there is still some connection
to this girl
that allows me to realize i was her
even if it seems impossible
for a person to change that much