The End

This is the end.

The paved road stops here.

I have searched out the paths and the passwords

 the highways and right ways

 and talked the talk,

all golden tickets sought out and coveted,

yet they all crumbled

leaving my purse empty and my fingers green with the falsehoods smearing off of them

and I am…

tired.

I have expanded myself to be heard 

to be seen 

to be taken seriously

not for a ride

or at face value

and still the on the job training fell too short

and I have been invited to wander once again.

 

Good bye

good luck

good riddance….

 

I will no longer reach out

no longer expand.

I will contract instead to feel my experience

my self

at its purest

its most powerful.

A stars last breath is its brightest

and instead of begging for a map to the neon lit crowd pleasing intersections

I will choose my own way

build my own bridges

and burn 

oh so brightly 

with them.

©jayetomas2015