Boxes packed

Boxes packed, sitting

in a stack on the floor,

near the door, flaps

folded and tucked, waiting

for the last movement.

Pictures taken down, walls

empty yet bearing marks

of what had been before,

windows of meaning, closed,

a life worked and lived,

a life retired, retiring.

And it, too, is good.

Photograph by Lynn Greyling via Public Domain Pictures. Used with permission.