stripped for paint

clean the desktop. it will cost a bit to catch up, but there isn’t anything to look back at anymore, just a new analysis, a wondering, cause believe it or not you have arrived at the place you needed to get to. and you were so fussy getting here, admit it. throwing yourself into that escape, pretending you haven’t learned better, learned to do better. socially creating, watching those hairs turn determined and white. go ahead and clean it all up, those rivers are about to converge.

I know the truth. and it isn’t about searching for a consequence. it’s just a cleaning after all. a new start and a promise, the correction is here. so much gratitude for eyes wide open. so grateful for the newness of experiencing, and the realness of experiences. a question to what has been learned and what has been adopted. both learned as behaviors, perhaps even erased as avoidant escape,

to worry is to lie, and what could be more important, than the sum of truths, like a ray of sunlight, what could be more honest than the salt of the sea. declarations to humble a collection of monsters. collected revisited

all my hope for a fine toothed comb, finally pulling me away from the flame. to deny it is to cease to live. a possible thing, never to be realized again.

a life now lived, let that be the secret created, let it come toward you, prepare the seat, this is another day to say it has been resolved

art credit: NDIDI EMEFIELE (Nigerian, b. 1987) Rainbowcation, 2016 Mixed media on canvas 55 1/10 × 63 in 140 × 160 cm