Company

I give my dying passions a warm goodbye,

thank you for helping me.

They are loves I’m no longer fixated on,

unfinished stories with pens drying beside them

and movements I grew away from

In leaving them all I forged an extension of myself;

an incomplete project is still worth commendation

for once it kept me company

and that’s all there is to it

I’m no longer frustrated by what I stop doing,

lose interest in,

simply abandon

For my heart knows when it means a lack of effort

and that is a different story

But to the things that faded away with time,

I appreciate what you did for me.

And I look forward to what I’ll embrace in the future

while holding tight to my current loves

as if I’ll never let them go.

by Adefela Olowoselu

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