While you are having your tag sale, why not do
it right? Sell off the defenses, all the doubts
and fears. Search the inside-yourself rooms too.
Bag and curb your “what-ifs.” Don't be too proud.
Discard the scary stories: the betrayals, the lies,
the degradations, the scenes of shame, the dark
rain of soullessness, the faces and cruel eyes
of those who used you, the crimes against the heart.
How can you stand in the clear light with so
much clutter? How can you see me with eyes
haunted by phantoms? Take a broom and go
chase them out. Clean house. Nobody buys
such sorry left-overs, so out the door!
Pile them off to the dumpster. Really start over.