Disaster

How bad does it have to get

for us to term it a disaster?

How much that is precious to us

must disappear

before we acknowledge

a disaster?

Is it all relative?

My disaster is your bump in the road?

 

The things that have flown away

or been spirited far from me,

these things I miss.

But their loss has been no disaster.

I tuck losses into the pockets

of my heart

where they remain hidden

yet still with me.

Thus, no disaster.

 

Refusing to honor disaster by name

removes its power to appall

and thus to paralyze.

 

Here's my advice

(remember that I am a list-making Capricorn

who thrives on activity):

ignore the terminology

and apply your considerable talents

to the nitty-gritty of doing.

 

 

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