Walk Away

Walk Away I woke up this morning I can't bring myself to pray. I check the clock to see the time. It says time to walk away. I search my mind for another time like looking through a crack. I saw the hurts of yesterday and I began to pack. Pictures of my loved ones now locked safe inside my heart. Hopes and dreams I can still dream to give them a new start. I checked the drawer of memories in the box called you and I. My smile seemed to turn away, back into tears I cry. I closed it and I shut the drawer looks like that will have to stay. Some things I can't take with me when it's time to walk away. I grabbed what little still remained of my pride and self respect. Damaged from the years it seems of abuse and my neglect. I dusted off that old trunk filled with things I've learned. Put it on the curb right next to bridges that I burned. I'll learn life all over if it's what I'm meant to do. Surely it can't be as bad as all that I've been through. With one sliver of a memory when I turn old and gray. Looking back I'll see that crack and the day I walked away. Edwin C Hofert