Keep going till you get to joy
Keep running till you find the more
This is what you chose when you were being born
It is a gift to feel it all
Every day a teacher
Every eye a portal
Surrender to the suffering
To transcend from this mortal
body
Body is the key
The starting point that moves us from the dream
To the ever waking
You’re breaking at the seams
And that’s exactly where you want to be
Even staring dead-eyed into the computer screen
is some silent kind of bravery
Even in the lack of sleep
you’re coming to know so intimately
There is someone slowly waking
The one you cannot see
for if you did you would not recognize them yet
They would walk right past you
Fate dressed as a future you can’t yet name
And if your words don’t land in conversations
maybe it’s because they’re still taking shape
and that’s okay
There is no one yet to be
and nothing you need to say
but if you say it all the same
the courage inside you celebrates
💖 Love this! Thank you. I needed to hear this today 💖 (Btw, we actually met once in person - in like 2014. I was working at a beauty salon called Freckle in Brooklyn and rang you up at the register, you were very sweet and kind!) 💖💖💖
Each word in this poem is a portal to a world. First to last.