the friend who surprisingly texts announcing good fortune unexpected yet hoped for the other who rings just as you consider not answering and shares the grief yet overlays the hope when screen reads ‘mom and dad’ and you sigh in the not right now moment yet steel yourself hit hello hanging up thirty minutes later a bit heavier yet lighter as well the sibling suggesting young family in tow come visit your empty nest solitude you know it will be well and yet the pause that occurs is nothing to be ignored these are the moments where new life begins where growth and rejuvenation on the wings of hope and faith spanned from the body of future possibility currents one up to the integrity of life this this this is where it is meant to be
Runon: cease~
