Purge

Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.

Anita Brookner

Forgot what it was

I'd formulated

again

sitting for hours

staring

into the darkness

of passage

(except that)

a voice I hear

now and again

chooses words that

sound strangely

like mine

and they

tumble endlessly

away

becoming water

shaping the same

rocks

which may

soon

guide me

(should I not wait)

all the way

across into that

same forever.