Off the road

To
another job
another province
even another country
or another person

is not what I want
when I haven’t neatly
lost what I had to leave
to be
– different

and then I move on
to god-knows-where
with god-knows-who
in a godforsaken place
because I have to be there

the universe holds it in its arms
everything that is nothing
so that I can lose it
and it weighs less
– than I thought

the way to the new
the infinite, so you wish
is not far away, it is within you
and in everything you see, it’s there
whether you’re gone or not

so I’m going to cross this road
as long as I have to
without any garbage
and a handful of
so called

– wisdom?