My past lies
like a deep
still lake,
a record of
all my mistakes
swimming
within its soul
& I want to burn
them all, but
how do you
take a flame to
water?
it just stays,
forms ripples,
sometimes small,
sometimes
biblical, all I can
do is wait for
drought, for
clouds to move
& sun to come
out; the day
I will wake
& not see a lake
but a clean slate