Melbourne, 1st to March

[kite17]

As we come along, life
gets unnecessarily complicated. The things you have
that are not needed, the people you've let down
(that still makes you think about it from time to time), meaningless
bickerings, arguments, quarrels,
trying to prove who's wrong and who's not... all
pile up, impedes growth, drags you down...

Lies upon deceits upon lies, the moral sleet tarnishes and chips,
the image you see in the mirror faints ever more,
the edges blurs, the image slurs;
skewed becomes you, death becomes her,
what's left is what you have...
but charred remains
a piece of dead wood expunged,
floating on a nourishing ocean.

You are right,
it is time
to sssssimplify.