Box

This is another one of my personal favorite poems I've done. As opposed many others, it focuses on the letting go process instead of dwelling on the pain, which is more important to me.

I put you in a box today

All the items stowed away

Every picture, there to stay

I piled it together

Safe from the weather

Every single lost letter

Baubles and trinkets; Odds and ends

Vague reminders of past time spent

I never want it back, here or then

You will remain on my closet’s top shelf

Above all my shirts, ties, and belts

Until I burn you, finally freeing myself

You’ll be put in a box someday

By another man, another way

Lowered into the ground to stay

I don’t care to be there for the show,

When you’re laid to rest, because I know

I'm so happy I finally let you go