Begin Again

I try to deny it

but every day

I’m more bitter

the sea of sadness

draws closer

raging tides

within trembling silence

but I don’t want

to sit in empty pity

even as the things

I want to hold

fall through

my fingers like sand

instead I bid

a beautiful adieu

to all these thoughts

that do not serve me

the truth is all the things

I keep losing are just things

that either didn’t deserve me

or didn’t serve me

so I’ll wipe the tears

that stained my skin

take a breath

begin again