Beginning Again

Image by Dave Hoefler via Unsplash.

Is it normal to begin well past your supposed prime?
To try things so new and fresh and scary
That you'd forgotten what it was like to be green?

Will I be able to forget the magical?
Should I try to forget the unpleasant?
Which would make me whole?

Excitement and guilt
Pain and beauty
Scars yet healing liberation

Coexisting
                Complementing
                                  Competing

Becoming a fading memory that relinquishes power to the imperative now

Alas, I must begin again.
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