A poem upon moving

In March of 2019, I moved from the apartment I had been renting for 9 years to a new one. This is a poem I wrote shortly before my move. A year later, I'm filled with such gratitude at all this change brought about in my life!

Between

With each piece of sticky tack
I peel from your walls
You're moving from Home
to Not-my-Home.

Filling box by box with color and memories
Till I'm left with a dizzying swirl of white -
made brighter by daylight
flooding through curtain-less windows

All at once reluctant and eager to go,
A new space to make my Place awaits
But today's steps are the
Dance of Between -
Treading with gratitude as
packing becomes a prayer of goodbye


Rennes, France
February 17, 2019