I Am Resilient
The view from my branch
up high
though sitting alone
so lovely, but
I am hanging on to the branch
falling now
Seeing all that darkness I’d climbed from
approach again
And it isn’t the fall that kills
but the sudden Stop
When your own weight
becomes too heavy
And a force you can’t
talk into doing otherwise,
your Nature,
is your Downfall.
By now I expect the plunge
But that is not to say I am used to it
Nor am I ready to stop clinging
to that treacherous knotted bough,
the symbols of my being--
Memories of
lost companionship
severed ties and
Blurred revelry
and other heavy weights
I keep in my pocket
that speed the descent
and worsen the pain
at the Stop.
But broken limbs always heal
On the tree
and on my person
So how could I
How would I
stop climbing?
I am falling now
I have broken
But I will heal
I am resilient
and I will not let
a broken branch
break me for long
and I will keep chasing that beauty by the Sun
impossible venery
indescribable sublimity
and keep it for a while
for as long as I can
and keep climbing.