I forgot how to exist
without
picking up socks,
mittens,
putting away legos,
wiping uncapped
toothpaste squirts,
preparing eggs
for more than
one,
laundering four times
than what I wear.
A decade of dying to
myself –
A decade more and
I will walk through
rooms unchanged,
echoing
absence
forgetting these noisy,
cluttered days.
April Best is the writer and photographer behind stillsmallmomentsblog.com. Her pursuit of living wisely is a hopeful one, filled with dog-eared pages of books, and attempts to start and end each day in kindness. April studied English and French at York University in Toronto and has her Master’s Degree in English Literature.