the sink is stacked full of week-old dishes that i haven't found the energy to wash- the dishwasher's spoilt and i haven't had time to call someone to repair it. or maybe i'm just procrastinating.
the laundry-basket is overflowing with clothes, i've been too busy working to put them to wash. or maybe i'm just procrastinating.
this is what you talked about. taking the last clean shirt out of the closet, swearing because i realize my laziness has caught up with me, eating chinese takeout almost every night because i love the chicken chow mien, not caring that i'll soon get sick of it.
it's what you called "that searching", wanting more and more and even more. we want the cold days to end and the warm ones to come, we want back the people we used to love. we want to see spring again, for the cycles of life to repeat themselves. we're never satisfied. this yearning, this feeling- what you finally gave up.
i see it in the mirror every morning, think about it when i spill the coffee because i'm hungover from last-night's emotional breakdown. i catch a whiff of it when i let the dog out, when i'm buying a CD from the corner video store, when i catch a glimpse of myself in the car window.
and i am filled with the knowledge that i am alive;
for this, this is what the living do+. what you finally decided was too much for you to take.
but that's okay. lock the door behind you now, and drive safe.