Good Riddance 2009!!!!

I'm so blah about the end of the year. So fucking glad its OVER! I shed myself of some pretty binding thoughts, people, situations etc, and I'm putting my best effort in to making 2010 fantastic!
Sigh. That being said, I felt a lot like this the past week or so...

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I will present you
parts
of
my
self
slowly
if you are patient and tender.
I will open drawers
that mostly stay closed
and bring out places and people and things
sounds and smells, loves and frustrations, hopes and sadness,
bits and pieces of three decades of life
that have been grabbed off
in chunks
and found lying in my hands.
they have eaten
their way into my memory,
carved their way into
my heart.
altogether-you or I will never see them-
they are me.
If you regard them lightly,
deny they are important
or worse judge them
I will quietly, slowly,
begin to wrap them up,
in small pieces of velvet,
like worn silver and gold jewelry,
tuck them away
in a small wooden chest of drawers
and close.

John Wood