Life Dreams / Lucid Living (c) 2003
Out of Business
I'm
going out of business
closing out
the past,
typing up ends
of the loose-ends kind
shutting doors forever,
heavy padlocks hung in place,
cascading hollow echoes
back in time
Today I am
without
parental burdens --
they died
within me
empty spaces
awaiting the vacuum-rush
of nature's abhorence
Today I'm
re-creating my life,
setting up a
new scenario
this time with me
in the leading role
And today, new is
just as tossed
as old
as I devise
a new
newness --
unpredictable,
unforeseeable,
unexpected,
given the script so far
It's a twist,
a surpise ending,
a
cliff-hanger
needing
no explanation
providing certainty
that this time
the heroine
overcomes it all
& blazes forth
a winner
in the sequel
to my life
thus far
going out of business
closing out
the past,
typing up ends
of the loose-ends kind
shutting doors forever,
heavy padlocks hung in place,
cascading hollow echoes
back in time
Today I am
without
parental burdens --
they died
within me
empty spaces
awaiting the vacuum-rush
of nature's abhorence
Today I'm
re-creating my life,
setting up a
new scenario
this time with me
in the leading role
And today, new is
just as tossed
as old
as I devise
a new
newness --
unpredictable,
unforeseeable,
unexpected,
given the script so far
It's a twist,
a surpise ending,
a
cliff-hanger
needing
no explanation
providing certainty
that this time
the heroine
overcomes it all
& blazes forth
a winner
in the sequel
to my life
thus far
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