Don't Return (a poem) #throwback
Channel: Mark Anthony Thomas
Date: 21/03/2022

Don't Return is a poem from As I Look, a collection of poems about self and social re-creation by Mark Anthony Thomas. Released in 2000, on his 21st birthday, the book includes poems written as a teenager.

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Don’t return

You are opening my portal of resentment,
my thoughts of damnation—

Passing through my wound
of everlasting depression—

So don’t leave offended,
don’t leave with an 
uninvited predisposition—

Just make sure you leave.
And like me
don’t return.

Copyright © 2000 – As I Look