Starting Over

 Leave behind the things you thought you needed--

the pots and pans and tacky souvenirs--

and set to fire all the things that we did:

the journal that we kept for all those years,

our pictures, poems, set them in their bins

and let their chalky ashes catch the air.

 

Release all cords, relations, lovers, peers

the intimacy manufactured there 

is found as easily another where.

 

A new self seek. A new place build, again. 

It's easier to ruin than repair,

and easier to forfeit than to win.

 

Abandon, burn, and say goodbye.  You'll find

the very things you thought you left behind.