Re-writing you

You are looking for yourself in the pages of a book
You started looking in a chapter,
And then a paragraph,
Now you just want a word
I too am lost, looking for a story
Let me write about you darling, help you find yourself
I’ll skip some parts,
I won’t write about those three long years you never want to talk about
I’ll write about the years before that and how you used to dance
I’ll write about the years after, without saying how you got here
Perhaps you’ll like this version of your life better, edited and polished
Let me clear your conscience, the only way I know how
You say you want someone to un-know you, well maybe I can try.