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Word Gems
exploring self-realization, sacred personhood, and full humanity
Tricia Cherin
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Closure
There's a reason why I dislike this term
aside from the general principle that
psychologists' jargon too often
trucks in the mock heroic
unwise to its own hyperbole
But of all the priggish terminologies
so somberly wielded
I find closure
this pop-psych aphorism
the most offensive
It does us great disservice to think
we are ever done
with people
as if the stuff that happens
could be finger snapped away
as if we could take off
like a sweater
teleological yearning
It used to be hard
to let go of little moments
groupings togethernesses
when we were all accruing lives
filling ourselves up
with history like helium
I wanted to hold tight then
each coming together
before the going going gone
of the next day's gavel
Now we have enough stories to stock us
enough character studies
and scene locations
enough O. Henry endings
but the apertures to who we have been
and where and how must be open
our anterior selves beholdable
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