Knock knock

Make friends with your loneliness
Make friends with your sorrow
Make friends with every
Emotion that comes to visit
Then say, "Fare thee well" 
And open the door
To let them leave

We've held them captive
Kept them jailed
We are not their slave
We are not their victim
They are not us
We used them
For the story of "me"
The same way
We use all identifiers

Face your empty home
Ah, but it isn't empty
It is filled with light to see
And air to breath
And love 
And aliveness
And peace

(Knock, knock, knock)
DO NOT OPEN THE DOOR!

bjbeyers 6/2023