Recycling Self

How common to recycle today
bottle
cardboard
can
or bubble wrap

How rare the regard for pleas from
mind
heart
memory
wishing also to amend anew

To arouse the sleeping heart
thrusting its comfort-beat
upon new rhythms made aware
ensuing musical notes of clarity
not yet upon the staff of boundaries
affording dissonance where only
harmony's familiarity once reigned

To revisit memory
offering bygone experience
wiser tools of perception
scrambling dog-eared indexes
cross-referencing fact and fabrication
allowing waste to fall free
encouraging truth to persevere

To sort through mind's many strategies
discounting some
discarding others
dismantling exhausted cogs that
advance little the unknown begging at the door

Such is

To complete one's desire to remain conscious
allowing distinction for that worth rebirthing
from chaff heretofore but the friction urging resolve

How obvious to some
the take-to-the-curb days of consciousness

How misunderstood by others
the smothering effect of treating excess becoming garbage

How aware
those who
like the winged flights on high
weave today's nest
from yesterday's exhausted remnants
knowing well the destiny of permanence
is but to replant where burnt forests once thrived