Losing It


from the ABC set Refelections on Life

What will it take
to shed the self
of all these useless trappings,
the burden of endlessly designed desires.

No house, no needing family
yet drowning still in possessions.

Oh to find the courage to fuck it all,
to walk off into a flimsy future,

free of all but what I can wear
between me and a northern winter
and faith in an anonymous love.

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