NaPoWriMo 2025 - day twentyfive

go ahead,
fill your pockets.
or  empty them.
 
go ahead,
fill your hands.
or  empty them.
 
this is the hard work,
the things we carry with us always:
the ways in which we’ve struck out
in anger, or held tightly in fear;
the hurtful words spoken
in public or in secret, foolish
acts committed on impulse.
we begin again
once we exhaust our excuses.
 
go ahead,
fill your boots.
keep walking.