baggage

baggage

accumulating possessions until the house is filled
crowded in peering over the surrounding memory
pick and chose in obsession step over that spilled
a dried four leaf clover pauses moments of revery
discarding the possessions garbage bags overflow
more is throw away clearing space for more piles
in the end making concessions tossing to and fro
cling to scraps and fearing the needs all the while
accumulated experiences live in minds in jumbles
woven intricate tapestries of then now and when
intermixing the variances in the steaming jungles
clearing brush chopping trees see what has been
make choices in great care so the delicate survive
regretting in great despair the curse of being alive