Statute Of Limitations – 11th May 2025

Shared with Reena’s Xploration Challenge #380 for the prompt ‘Who will read my diary?” I read through other people’s writing for the prompt and considered all the further questions raised from this initial one. It led to a more stream-of-consciousness write this time, perhaps because my own thoughts are not so clear yet. Who will even read this explanation?

Who will read my diary? I don’t know.

If you were deeply inquisitive…
I could be in trouble!
Because I told it all…

(mostly, one or two things remain too shameful,
even for me)

My words likely to upset
as I recall random thoughts from
thirty years ago.

How could a reader put it all into context
without reading from the beginning?

I’ve been good

(again, mostly)

for the last decade or two.

Thanks for the statute of limitations
in the few different countries I’ve lived!

(I only stole from corporations anyway;
and I haven’t written that story yet, but I will)

If you chose to take the time to read through it all
you would only see yourself
and hopefully you already know
what you are all about…

If I wished anyone to read my diary
it would be the children,
to inspire them to keep going
and never give up.