Sister

done with the ugly
ways treated
resolving
to let you go

I remember
dim flickers
now imagining
the ways
your face contorted

manipulator be gone
from not
only my presence
but inside me
as well

this is the moment
where I shake dirt
free from my shoes

all the dirt
of worry, politics,
blame

saying goodbye
to the polite
way life used
to be so I can
now live.



Tempest Brew,
Indianapolis, IL 
United States