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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. Leonard Cohen

Thursday, June 14, 2012

All Good Things

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If all good things must end
then how to explain us?

I used to be afraid
to feel too good
Kept myself tethered
so the inevitable fall 
wouldn't hit too hard

Now 
I let my joy fly 
like a newly fledged bird
and I need not grieve
its ending
for each ending creates 
Space
for the beginning 
of something even
Better.

3 comments:

Brian Miller said...

smiles...i like how you turn that saying on its head...and i know a few that kept them selves in check not to get hurt in the fall but how freeing just to let yourself go to joy...

Grace said...

I know and believe it ~ I like the joy of the newly fledged bird ~ Nice reflections ~

Jinksy said...

There is a Khalil Gibran quote for this 'Every end is a new beg ginning' - you hit the ail on the head!