How do you know it’s time to go?

I have lingered here too long

Like my favorite clothes I always

Wear them thin too soon

holes and stains litter this space

And I see now it is my own doing

That this has come undone

I have lingered here too long

Out of love or something else…

I see that maybe not for love

But routine has kept me in these rooms

Wandering though my old life

After starting anew

How I have damaged the well worn memory

And pulled it from nostalgia into

The present, making it tense

A life out of context

I have lingered here too long

I have not mastered to art of letting go

of leaving, I pull on this old life

and now my well worn clothes

come un done and I see what they were made of

I should have let the pieces lie

I have lingered here too long