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Packing Up Past Lives by J.L. Barrow
from Legacy 2011
Packing Up Past Lives
by J. L. Barrow
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She files away the seemingly
Random black-and-white, dusty
Photographs of a past life
Into boxes filled with desperate
Towels.
Gazing at built-in shelves like
She’s looking for some lost
Jewel, heirloom; longing for something
To be there to remind her of how great life
Once Was.
She looks through the kitchen,
Tile cold to her bare and wondering
Feet, eyes scavenging horridly for a former
Face to appear and grant her a mere
Smile.
But none are here, and nor
There. She cries herself to
Sleep that night, lying with a plain blanket on
The hard wooden floor, now bare from
Color.
She leaves her experience all packaged up
In what once she called home; her Former
One, she says quietly. She throws the keys, so
Jagged, into the bushes, going go God knows not
Where.
