.

This morning I woke well before dawn,
the weight of routine no longer tolerable,
and wept, sobbed long and deep for all the
disrespectful acts that anyone has ever done,
for all the discarded kindnesses, carelessly tossed away,
and for all the goodbyes that I will never get to say.
For moments lost in time, I cried
as if to finally shed old skin,
as if to finally let them go,
while outside my window
it softly snowed.