Goodbye to Costco

Thanks for reading Jen's Midlife Chrysalis! Apologies for not posting for a while--my concerns were overriding my usual desire to share and connect above all else. Here come a few pieces!

Goodbye to Costco
To whose is what in the fridge, the pantry
To four joyful voices upstairs
To the heat of rage 
To slammed doors and biting words
To pretending on the sidewalk
To dinner for five

From being silenced, muffled, ignored
To the silence of nobody to hear
From secret incessant imagining
To want that is met
Sometimes

Goodbye to steady solace 
Goodbye to knowing the long road ahead

Arms tight around myself
One bracing step at a time
Into the wind and the grit
Into the darkness and the divine
Into the desert and the falls,
Go.