Scenes from the Journey: Full Moon

Sunday, July 14, 2019

Under the fire of the great moon's fullness I list

what it is time to release.

The ember of my pen scrawls across the ivory paper,

itemizing traits too long allowed

to chafe my heart with their unfittingnesss.

Once acceptable—

even necessary to who I was then—

this thorny carapace no longer serves,

nor is it the face I wish to present

to the world.

So onto the paper goes prickliness,

then joined by the mask of aloofness and superiority.

And when the list is complete,

I fold the paper and light it with the fire of that moon.

And I confine the ashes

to the cleansing waters of a flowing river.

Scenes from the Journey