Day 28. Lent

     Forgiveness says you are given 
     another chance to make a new beginning.

        -/Desmond Tutu

begin and begin again

 start a new line

tear it out and begin again

the story doesn't alter

it just stops, sputters,

and begins again

as if the place where 

anything was a possibility 

never happened, a hiatus 

where a new beginning 

might take root

but didn't