Poem: Embracing Cycles
If one leaps off the diving board
There is a fall
Why is falling part
of life
a new place
a splash of water
an underwater holding of one’s breath
the body sinking and gliding
How else might we jump?
what if
everything has an end
and what’s best from it
is reborn
resurfaces
in this way
one’s dance
never ends
It just transforms
The ending creating space
for something new
Chapters of a friendship
a life
and new life
arrives
Cycles
that nature brings
How might one soften to listen here
to this flow
To trust it to guide
the gentle steps forward
And lean into
the holding and grace
Of it
fully
relentlessly
with courage and
rest
