Spring Cleaning

Spring cleaning.

Cleaning out relationships
Clutter
Crap

Cleaning out the parts of my heart
that ought never
turn back

Cleaning out the crevices
& corners
of my brain

Cleaning out the calories that
make me
go insane

Cleaning out the habits
that don’t serve
me any longer

Cleaning out the wasted time
and instead
getting stronger

Cleaning out the negative voices
that ask me where
I’m going

Cleaning out the difficult choices
that I’m afraid of
never knowing

Cleaning out the rocks
from between
my teeth

Cleaning out my room
and changing
my sheets

Cleaning out the rest of my heart
and setting it out
in the rain

Cleaning the sidewalk it
sits upon so as to
ease the pain

of rapid cold raindrops
drumming against
my flesh

and trusting that when the process is over
it will not result
in mesh

but a pure and clean new heart
that sparkles
and shines
and glows

and gives life to all the flowers
and the people it passes
as it grows.

Spring cleaning.