February 20-B, 2023

Our life is changing as we watch.

Hold it close,
let it go.

Getting from our life
all it has to offer
in between.

Where have we held back 
from our life?
Refused to go where it 
was taking us?
Not looking at
what it had to show us?
Trying to give us
what we would not have?

Where are we being obstinate?
Refusing to go?
Not looking?
Not having?

We are to look at this life
as the only on we are going to have,
as though it is unique to us,
and we to it.

This is our chance to see
what is to be seen,
to do what is to be done,
to experience what is to be experienced,
to know what there is to know,
to take what it has to offer,
drawing lines where they need
to be drawn,
and being who we are
as opposed to who 
we have no business being.

Who is that?
Have we lived well-enough to know?
We have the time left for living
to be sure.
Why hold anything back?

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