Reducing

Reducing

Chucking 

Letting go 

of things

I thought 

I believed

I used to believe

But these objects

Are getting harder

To carry

From dream 

to dream

Reduction

In cooking 

means 

Thickening,

Intensifying 

the flavour

By simmering 

or boiling

So by reducing

We are doing both

The purge of long ago and

Are thickening 

And intensifying

our new life

together