we cannot live in hope without reckoning with loss and failure

we hear it even know it but it means something altogether different

to feel it

I stand before the sunrise as if any other day

but this the first upon which I stand alone

I want to ask the day what it brings as I have so many times before

but today I have nothing to ask wanting only to tell

what it means to face this expanse

alive still this way

I suddenly find myself

precarious