1855 - Pivot Point

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The Sunday Whirl presented these twelve words for us to use in a creative writing piece.  

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dVersepoets has the prompt "Pivot".

Pivot Point

You have to leave something behind 

to move forward.

– Bikey Thapa

Thirty-nine years—

It is time to go.

The frame creaks,

The clocks chime slowly,

They know all too well

How relentlessly time slips by.

In a daze, I walk around—

The house is partially empty now,

Old memories loop around me.

My footsteps echo too.

Boxes are filled, stacked, waiting.

The longest hour, the hardest hour, 

Is the one just before leaving.

But one must look to the future,

Take chances—if not now, when?

To be rooted to one spot is comfortable,

But comfort is where dreams go to die.

I open the door 

and step out...

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