We could not tell you sooner—
you had to ask the question first,
had to wonder why….
To stay afloat
you must set aside praying
and save yourself.
You do the thing
you think you cannot do…
Knowing that the anchor
was thrown too far from the boat
all that time ago
reunion can’t come soon enough.
You’ll come for yourself eventually,
walking backwards from the future
or flying up behind like a mighty wind.
We wake into a day
already alive and waiting,
wake into a life already pregnant
with the thought of us…
There are places where thoughts cannot go,
places your mind will not take you.
Like a road that stops at the foot of a hill
or falls short in the deep of a valley…
Unhitch yourself from the wagon
that goes only one way
knows only one route
travels the same rutted path
it always has,
In the heart of fear
lies fearlessness.
In the eye of the hurricane,
stillness presides…