If I were in the upside-down
of course it would be formidable,
of course I would be reaching for
your hand to hold in the dark,
but what would I find?

You’ve shed your old self
at least twice over, and you
feel the need again to come out
revived, another brand new you,
and that’s also alarming.

Who will you be?

Will you choose to be a single man
living alone the rest of his life, a
hermit who lives for the needs of others
and doesn’t think enough of himself
to let himself be loved?

Will you like the color orange, or
be a vegetarian, or decide PDAs are fine?
Or what about a new career, or dyeing
all your gray hair, or a sports car?

What would you choose to have
if you didn’t have to have me?

Today’s poetry prompt words were: brand new, upside-down, vegetarian.

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