Just an Old Friend

She is just an old friend
that I see every now and again
on the dark lit streets
of forbidden memories -
she comes to me.

I regret the things once said
and the things that repeat
over and over in my head
because she is a forbidden memory
and she is nothing to me.

A life once lived, but now passed on
I cannot forget that she helped me
become who I have become
and each time I see her and her defeat
I realize that it is my life that has won.