The memories of my life

Lay like fracture patterns in ice

Welded together by the cold

Cracked by stresses that want to leave gaps.

There are so many things I want to forget,

To let go of,

But everything is held in place by a tension,

Stretched taut.

I just want to find the warmth

That melts everything and let it flow away

Reconciled and released.

~ E.S.