"I choose spirit
the all-encompassing" I remind myself

I do not need to pack nice dresses
or many pairs of shoes
I do not need to take the rings
or earrings
not even the bracelets engraved with my name
I do not need to take books, old journals or certificates

I do not need to be what I have been
unless it submerges me deeper
into this sea that resides amongst my floating ribs
unless it guides me
down past the twilight zone and into the enveloping darkness
of the midnight aphotic zone where I can find
what the anglerfishes feed on/ what gives life when the warm light of the sun cannot follow
and plummet
like my will further down



until it can pierce through the veil of the material world

until I come back to this room as an angler fish and feed off the cocktail dresses and light  the dark deary rooms of the old home I grew up in with bioluminescent bacteria and have no need for shoes or jewels