when it finishes rather than begins
don’t mistake
I am not lamenting a passing
I am here to extol! the opportunities the lessons the chances we get
by putting one foot in front of the other
doing our part it walking
wearing the skin suit we have been given
believing as we must for what is left if not for this
believing we are here and there is so much
reason
beyond chance
exceptional chance
to turn the tide
even when especially when
the heart feels too weighty to lift its head