If a break 
isn’t bad enough 
I’ve got to 
repair the line 
and get back 
what got out 
or maybe just 
leave it be 
let it fend
for itself and 
see if the 
grass grows greener 

In this half
day half dark
I smell soap 
and imagine clean
it’s funny clean 
it being once 
and never again 
until it is
so dirty maybe 
soiled even is
the natural order 
because clean doesn’t 
stick around long 

Now done
already finished 
one more 
box ticked
a checklist 
life is
a challenge 
a checkup 
and then 
a checkout 
before you 
go home 
memories bagged

Regret is 
a blister 
on the 
heart of
hope and 
the hands
of justice 
and one 
that will 
surely take 
decades to 
ever heal 

It isn’t when 
but how said 
wind to wing
I can blow 
but it’s you 
that must lift
I’ve been here 
you’ve been waiting 
just as leaves
know it’s time 
to go so
do birds know 
that it is 
time to fly