thriving lessons

life will shape
unshape or
remake you,
depending on
what you remember
or try so hard
to forget.

memory is a
traffic roundabout,
brain looped,
thinking, trying
to make sense,
looking for
an exit.

yielding, cautious,
rounding the curve,
dizzying choices,
moving to the right,
or choosing 
to find out
what's left.

move forward,
up the drive,
to excellent purchase.
build a house
with firm walls,
a solid roof,
a dry basement.

attach a four-season
expansively windowed
room to grow
because there is
no such thing as time
only change
and remembrance.