I’m Done! Change Is Never Easy Or All It’s Cracked Up to Be

I’m Done

I’m done.
I’m never going back.
I’m irrevocably done.

My words haunt the silence
as old skin wrinkles, writhing against
unwelcome habits, obsolete ways of thinking.
I want to shed what
no longer serves me.
I need change.

I am done with the past.
I am done with ruminating.
I am done with not singing fearlessly.

Life, help me come alive.
All I want is to breathe like the
gentle breeze caressing leaves
the way I did when I was not afraid
to release my voice into the wind.

I am the breeze, say it:
I am not afraid.

. . .

Poetry isn’t a profession; it’s a way of life.
It’s an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.

—Mary Oliver

. . .

And always—

Be kind. Be brave. Be you.

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