Packing Material

I set out to empty my room today

To cleanse it of you

I packed it all away

There was nothing else I could do

The mug

Oz, the city where dreams come true

My lips to drink, while thinking of you

I packed it away

The cards

Heartfelt thank you's and I love you's

Touched me always, and chased away the blues

I packed them away

The elephant

Stuffed, but alive with the spirit of Yuri

A spirit that you once knew through me

I packed it away

The letters

Words that poured from soul to soul

A transfusion of love that made me whole

I packed them away

The pictures

Images of a queen, visions of a daffodil

A special loveliness that I remember still

I packed them away

A toy car

Frivolous, insane, but drenched with meaning

Resurrecting youth and joy that had been waning

I packed it away

The scraps

Little bits of paper, notes scrawled in your hand

Like you, they slipped through my fingers as if sand

I packed them away

The calendar

A keeper of time, which itself is unkeepable

The month frozen at August; it was always impossible

I packed it away

The poems

Music written for a dancer named Audrey

Music that set my creative essence free

I packed them away

The Introspection gift

A treasure from you that defined us both

A haunting image of a teenaged ghost

I packed it away

The pumpkin

A symbol of a magical spell that once bound

To have lost means something was once found

I packed it away

The packing material

Stuff that other people carelessly throw away

Priceless to me, since that is all I have left today

I packed it away

I packed and packed, till my arms were weary

I looked in an unseen mirror; the reflection was dreary

And finally the room was barren, as barren as my soul

I had packed it away