Moving On
By Don Iannone

Let yourself go,
in ways you never have before.
Gather your power,
within the seat of your soul.
Unleash the real you,
the one that has been hiding in the cellar.
The one dying to be you,
the one that almost died--
for want of validation.
Don't wait till you're too old,
and it takes all you have
just to fetch the newspaper--
from the front porch
you spend too much time sitting on.
Remember...
just because it's familiar doesn't make it right.
And please don't look back,
you might see the ghosts
you left for a real life.