You can't unsee the world (Poem)

You can’t unsee the world, can't scroll back the time or close your eyes to the sun. You can’t pretend you don’t know how big the horizon can be, now that you’ve seen it stretch out before you. You can’t unsee the world, or pretend you are just a tiny branch waiting for spring in the cold, when you have already seen the whole forest alive. You can’t lie down and crawl through the quiet and the…