My friend burns her journals, ritualistic, posts the ashes, cleansed,

Much respect for this practice, this perspective…but it’s not my own,

Funny thing to my way, juxtaposed,

I blog many of of my life experiences, my struggles, point of view, opinion, but I post them, these same stories my friend commits to her soul and then the ashes —

Conjecture only, since I don’t know what’s in her journals —

But it does strike me as quite the contrast, I put my life out for the world, seems very natural to me, cathartic,

But maybe this isn’t so normal, maybe not so normal,

No, no maybe not, but for me,

GOOD.