A Friendly Reminder
At year’s end
the psychic vampires
will come to steal your soul.
They may appear as sacred icons
cloaked in something shiny
that costs an arm and a leg
but beneath their glittery
Spandex jumpsuits,
they are nothing more
than those evil blood suckers:
Regret, Fear, and Longing.
They will drain you dry
if you don’t disarm them first.
They are always behind you
and so the trick, I have found,
is to go only forward, never back,
no matter how completely
uncertain it looks up ahead,
no matter what shit pile
is blocking the road.
It is, after all, your road
and why do you think God
gave us arms and shovels?
Some time in the middle
of this life or the next,
you will dig yourself to someplace
lighter—a place you can enjoy
a warm sea breeze—and let go
of what drains you; a place to be
yourself, peaceful iconoclast.
Lisa Vihos
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