I used to be,
Once upon a time, a collector.
Photographs, coins, gifts and ruins
Music, ribbons, memories and jewels.
Spent enormous energy
Collating, collecting, protecting
Lest it disintegrated
Spent enormous time
Gathering, accumulating, fearing
Lest it reached hands unsolicited
Now, I no longer care
For when it did disintegrate, I didn’t weep
Now, I am no longer overweight
For I learnt, my collection wasn’t me
While I now purge wedges off me
And my possessions fall,
Those accumulations, in all honesty,
Were the heaviest of all.
