you can stumble through life

never noticing

the voice of your own muse,

your body’s intuition,

your connection to all things

great and small

you can ignore

how They call to you

never confronting

how you avoid vulnerability

through attachment to old wounds

or you can leave behind

what can never be undone

along with everything else

that neglects This world

and rejoice:

you are never alone

sometimes we need to fall

like an old sea heavy with salt

sinks beneath freshwater upwelling

rest assured:

the tide lifting

you back to shore

celebrates your arrival.