the economics of letting go
lately i’ve been thinking about
physical things and emotional things:
everything i have to carry.
i feel burdened with memories.
and the way i will hold on to
an item or thought
just in case
it will be of significance later.
i rehearse lines from a conversation had.
memories.
i never let anything gather dust.
because we never know if things
are going to be of
more or less
value in the future.
but lately i have stopped agonising over
the economics of letting go.
i am telling myself
it is okay to forgot.
i am making room for better things.
like light.
like nothing at all.
Autumn 