You are the Mystery........

"Leave everything you know behind"

Would that be

Once.. twice... thrice?

Mindsets, belief systems

Relationships, address

City, Country

Vocation

Temporarily .. permanently? 

Live the old life

In a new way

Literally 

Begin a new?

What will ensure

That which was left behind

Isn't stalking ya?

Waiting to 

Reseed & resurrect itself 

In the new garden..

What of the old?

To be reconstituted 

And therefore

The matrix of the new??

All that is new

Not necessarily "improved.."

Tradition has blends

Of merit & obsolescence ..

For certain 

A new lens availed

A entirely unique mirror

Subsequent to

The release 

or suspension

Of all that is familiar

And then see 

What presents without it...  

Who are you?

Without all the former

Habitual trappings...

Much to be discovered

Beyond resignation 

And presumption

One may find

More than ever imagined

And realize 

Much that seemed 

Integral and necessary

Is no such thing.

An intriguing correlation

exists

Between what's possible

and what's "unknown.."

R. O'Neill (October,  04, 2017)