Starting Over

Visualize
peeling paint from the walls
as if it were your life now
starting over
bare sheetrock
cold
empty rooms
you can paint them
any color
red like blood
or ripe pomegranates
blue like the sea
you’re in control
this life is yours
to gut
and remodel
to color
and alter
take out the furniture
the people
the windows
to begin at the beginning
start with nothing
and create something
new.