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Prompt #36: "Time to forget..."
It's time to forget about the past
To wash away what happened last
[30 Seconds To Mars]

Thirty seconds to... what? Mars as in, the god? Or the chocolate bar? I bought one the other day, at the cornershop. It was absurdly gooey. These things you keep bringing up... I'm almost led to believe that your intent is to make me miserable. To goad me into making a fool of myself again, a sobbing woman... But let me tell you, I have no taste for breastbeating. I would look good in rent and torn sackcloth, ashes in my hair, crawling to the cross, begging for forgiveness, yes, but as to the honesty of the gesture? Well. That is debatable.

And so is this whole business of "forgetting about the past and washing away what happened last". What's done... is done. A broken jug may be mended, but you will always see the cracks. And it will come apart again, at the same seams and cracks. Trust, once broken, will remain thus. A promise once given and then revoked - such is mancanza di fede, and shameless.

I know all about it because I'm guilty of it. Would I like to "forget", and "wash away", as if immersing myself in the Jordan and coming out clean? It can't be done, believe me. Pontius Pilatus tried and scrubbed his hands bloody, wearing his flesh down to the bone.

So it is better to learn to live with the things one can't rinse off. The stains will stay, but at least they'll pale.