It Is Always

Painting by Frances Marino


it is always


it is always
easier to bookmark
your heart when
the story is still
very much
alive.

with just twelve
days under
my belt, i am
still walking into
each day, stunned,
as if it were an
unmarked chapter
folding me in
as i fumble
my way out,
storyless
.

Yi-Ching Lin

Posted over on her site Yi's Bits on "Healthy Doses"