Purging

I will clear out

all that doesn’t serve me,

books I never read,

shelves of past regrets,

all the inner stories that stunted my unfoldment,

wily and continual betrayers

I do not need

memories of weakness,

dire affirmations of historical shortcomings,

don’t need all those old complaints

or that dusty disapproval,

don’t need those assumptions or constraints

I’m getting rid of

anything that’s broken,

anything that’s worn out or outgrown,

I’ll let the spring shoots

fill in all around me,

I’ll let fresh new views

become my own.

©Wendy Mulhern

April 3, 2017