8 May 2022
box of bliss
hard cardboard box
packing tape shaped
inside
crumpled newspaper
plastic bags
cushion the space
therein, mementos
of a delicate life
souls, love-ripe
breeze-tossed leaves
golden sunset
cathartic release
ribcage full as
dissonance resolves
once long frustrated
now validated
a dream – it calls
my truth realized
all these realities
sacred to me
in my mind
I bundle safe
and keep
to peep
the next dark day
~meg vlaun