i never never

there are a great many things i never do

i never walk downstairs barefoot on the cold floor
i never go without a bra
i never linger in the bathtub with no purpose

there is a much longer list of i nevers that intimately defines me

but what walls do we create upon ourselves inside of our i nevers?

what keen living lives just a shadow beyond those walls?

(the view from my bathtub)

now i have walked barefoot on cold floors

now i have gone without a bra

now i have lingered in a bathtub with no purpose

by deconstructing

i shall climb beyond my walls

and crawl through the shadows

to know myself