Goodbyes

Letting Go

Without ceremony I binned your letters

Shredded and tossed in an Ikea office bin

Transferred to a Panda Grey

Not to be recycled

Never to be re-read

I watched them dragged and hoisted onto a conveyor belt

Pierced by gigantic Panda teeth

Imagined them flung in a land fill or incinerated

Leaving behind the smell of a Sweet Afton

The taste of a Blue Nun

And memories as seemingly random

as the toss of a dice.

Copyright with Cathy Leonard 2016