Setting out
Teenage years;
a time to set out
with a suitcase full
of hopes and dreams
and with some angst
about making your way
in the world.
Yet some of us set out
alone and scared
with a suitcase full only
with anxiety and doubt.
Our only hope
that we’ll somehow
get by.
***

You left him for another man
different but the same
and off I went again
spiraling downwards
as emotions
and memories
flooded up
and all the while
I couldn’t stop thinking
about the question why
didn’t you leave the bastard years ago?
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