How do you start a new life?
With a new name or a new face?
Do you move across continents or to a remote island?
Or is it as simple as changing your phone number?
How do you start?
Do you need resolutions, a checklist maybe?
A life coach or a therapist?
New friends or keep the old ones?
Which road do you travel?
North, South, East or West?
Or the one that leads home, wherever that is.
Are beginnings really new?
if there are shadows from the past?

Questions upon questions,
Unanswered questions,
Decisions unending!
Unending decisions!
How do you start afresh?
Throw a dice maybe,
Do you hold on to the hurt or do you let go?
How many new beginnings is one person entitled to?
How often can one start again?
How new are new beginnings?
Brand new, gently used, or good-condition new?
With a touch of trauma, band-aid or without?
New beginnings!
To start or not?
How new are new beginnings?

‘Fisayomi Oni (PMP) is a project management professional, policy advisor and literature enthusiast. She has a Bachelor’s of Arts (hons) degree from Adekunle Ajasin University and a Masters of Arts from the University of Ibadan. Her career cuts across publishing, private and public sectors. Fisayomi enjoys reading novels and listening to music in her spare time.

Alternate Bio: Fisayomi Oni likes to chop life