i’ve made up my mind, i’m leavin’ this town!

Today, I start moving from the Daffodil House to the Crescent House, up in the town where I work and attend school in.  Sara’s going to come over and help me move boxes and things, because I’m still supposed to let my back rest up for another day.  Once I get situated up there fully, I’m giving my stepfather his car back and I’ll be riding my bike, taking the bus, and carpooling everywhere for the summer, until I have enough saved up for a car.  I wouldn’t be able to do this in my current town, but my college and work town has some degree of public transportation, and I’ll be a twenty minute walk from both the square AND uni, so it’s perfectly doable.  :D

I love my new room.  It’s so much bigger than my current room!  It’s going to be a little tighter financially for awhile, but it’s well worth the independence.  I’m just too old to still be at home, worrying myself sick about my family’s many little issues and affairs.  Today is the day to start spreading my wings to fly!

FATE

This is how it will all go down:

Lighting strikes, possessive,
Claiming the muscle and bone for its own.

Subtle fire prickles across the skin,
Proudly proclaiming mortality
To all with a mind to hear.

Earthquakes render tendons to mush and
Floods beckon, drowning all in froth and mud.

And then, when all is said and done
Mankind will take your bones to the kiln,
Forge fragile pots and cups which crumble
Into ashes and dust, caught by the wind.

Carried off at dusk.

And this is how it will all go down:

You will become

the lightning
the fire
the earth
the waters

And you will become the dish on which
I eat my birds and bread.