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Friday, January 31, 2025

Keep the Drains Open

Keeping drains open is 
difficult on cold winter’s 
nights when snow falls 
almost malevolently 
to cover the hard work 
and salt from yesterday 
when it was a false spring. 
I swept aside the beautiful white powder and dyed it turquoise to keep drains open til morning light. 


It’s not so easy to keep our 

inner drains open for worries 

that eat away at our souls. 

No salt to melt frigid feelings 

of fear. No broom to sweep them 

away into an open drain. So we 

take a breath, lift our palms 

up to the air, to imagine them 

flying away like moths that they 

are. Fragile, dusty and pesky.


“Worry drains the mind of its power and, 

sooner or later, it injures the soul.”

~ Robin Sharma, lawyer


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