What Is Next

For many of us

what could be more daunting than

the imperative of moving toward the darkness—

whether it's the darkness of what is next

(WHAT is coming? WHAT is coming?)

or the darkness that bubbles up

from the past.

Some of us might prefer to remain floating

on the surface of the bright and known present,

our eyes closed against the sun's brilliance

even as we revel in its heat on our eyelids.

But no.

Needs must.

What is next urges itself on us,

dark and forbidding at first

and yet,

as we move into it

(with whatever bad grace),

it is transformed

into the very brilliance

of our present life.

 

 

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